SocialPipeline 11/18/2011 (p.m.)

• One Per Cent: Occupy vs Tea Party: what their Twitter networks reveal

  tags: Visualization

  • The equivalent Tea Party network for 15 November, analysing a similar number of tweets posted over about three hours, looks rather different:
    
    
    (Image: Marc Smith of the Social Media Research Foundation)
    
    Here there are two main clusters, the blue one on the left containing Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and his supporters. (The diffuse cluster in the lower centre of the diagram consists not of Tea Party supporters, but critics of the movement from the political left.)

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