As I have done over the past few years ( 2017 , 2016 ), I returned from AAA2018 and ran some Twitter analytics. Here's the sociograph I came up with (click on the image to see it in its entirety): The chart represents over 2300 users and over 6400 "edges," which include both mentions and re-tweets. I've arranged them in groups by their hashtags. Not surprisingly, "AmAnth2018" is the largest group. But if you look to the upper right of the graph, you can see other, prominent hashtags, among them "#hautalk" and "#lgbt." If we rank the top Twitter users by "betweeness centrality" (a measure of the importance of a user in terms of their capacity to bridge parts of the graph), we can see many of the same usual suspects, but also some accounts that have become prominent over the last few weeks: americananthro culanth news4anthros eliseakramer allegra_lab tfstweets omanreagan ...
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