1. A Network Analysis of Twitter
Communication about Political Protest
Actions in Moscow
Alexander Semenov

2. WARNING!
This report is NOT
about POLITICS! It
is about DATA.

4. Twitter: what you see…

5. … is NOT what you get!
twitter.user.lang id
twitter.place.full_name links.url
twitter.place.name links.retweet_count
twitter.place.id links.created_at
twitter.place.url links.title
twitter.place.country interaction.author.username
twitter.place.place_type interaction.author.avatar
twitter.place.country_code interaction.author.name
twitter.text interaction.created_at
twitter.mentions interaction.content
twitter.links twitter.user.description
twitter.domains twitter.user.listed_count
twitter.in_reply_to_screen_name twitter.user.url
twitter.in_reply_to_status_id twitter.user.name
twitter.in_reply_to_user_id twitter.user.statuses_count
twitter.created_at twitter.user.followers_count
demographic.gender twitter.user.friends_count
klout.score twitter.user.screen_name
language.tag twitter.user.location
twitter.user.geo_enabled

6. Data acquisition: Free vs. $
•Twitter Search API •Twitter Streaming API
•150 – 350 requests per hour •LOTS of tweets
•Not representative •All relevant tweets
•Not augmented •Representative
•Free •Augmented
•$$$

7. Data: Top 50 words

8. Twitter is not a place for discussions
Modularity = 0,93
Maximum mutual degree = 5
navalny 62
xenia_sobchak 23
burmatoff 16
varlamov 15
tvrain 12
VRSoloviev 10
adagamov 9
WakeUpR 7
angeina_may 6
Alexgizn 6

9. Not much talking, yeah?
Mutual degree >= 1

10. Retweet: It’s not so viral
Maximum Geodesic Distance
(Diameter) 11
Average Geodesic Distance 4,5
Longest chain of retweets:
RT@kurginyanRU
RT@CuamckuyKot
RT@VRSoloviev
RT@M_Simonyan
RT@tina_kandeIaki
RT@SergeiMinaev
@Shevchenkomax
* Yellow is a for a media person

11. Top links
Hyperlink # tweets
twiwar.ru/ 1899
vkontakte.ru/event33239728 164
svobodanews.ru/content/article/24431541.html 133
luganskiy-lgua.livejournal.com/1021056.html 68
youtube.com/watch?v=4TY2MI8vRyY 46
p-company.livejournal.com/97625.html 45
vkontakte.ru/event33205830 35
akademiagp.ru/ 35
m-kalashnikov.livejournal.com/1093231.html 34
cherepkov.ru/ 30

12. Thank you!
Alexandr Semenov
semenoffalex@gmail.com