It's not exactly a huge data set, but the relatively small number of tweets makes twitter traffic easy to track at the year's AAA in San Francisco. The following graphs were produced with Twitter data using the #AAA2012 hashtag. Utilizing NodeXL, I downloaded data, and constructed a graph using a Fruchterman-Reingold algorithm. I filtered the data by day; the tweets were generated during a 24-hours period ending at the specified time. In the following, I reproduce the full text of the top five tweets (determined by in-degree) after each visualization.. November 15, 2012: 12:43 pm 1). americananthro Obama's english and the racial politics of American English #aaa2012 Still plenty of room at the plenary - come listen 2). savageminds let's do #tweetup for #aaa2012 Thursday 5-7 at Johnny Foley's. Leave the Hilton, turn right, cross the street and you're there. 3). aaa2012 @Melzter777 - not sure what the rules are but I'm gonna try! *...
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