Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Map of Porter Novelli people on Twitter on 17th Jan 2008
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Marian Salzman (our Global CMO here at Porter Novelli) has had the inspired idea of getting people in the agency to tweet about the most exciting story this week (probably) — the inauguration of Barack Obama
You can see the results of the experiment on her blog.
I’m all for this, of course, for several reasons:
- It gets new people onto Twitter
- It helps us create a stronger network among Porter Novelli twitterers
- It means I can track who at the agency is on Twitter
Tags: Barack Obama, influence, influence mapping, mapping, network analysis, networks, porter novelli, social media, twitter, visualization
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Network map of US Congress twitterers
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
This is a map of the current US congressmen and women who are currently on Twitter (you can click it to see a bigger map where you can read the names.) The direction of the arrows show who follows whom, and the size of the blobs indicates how “popular” a given congressperson is among their twittering peers (where “popular” means something like “is followed by many of their peers.”) Colours indicate party affiliation (for those of you who — like me — don’t live in the ‘States and who — like me — need reminding from time to time, the Democrats are the blue dots.)
Network of US Congress twitterers showing citation frequency. Click for bigger.
A cursory glance at this map shows a few things:
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Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Culberson, mapping, Neil Abercrombie, network analysis, networks, twitter, united states congress, visualization
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