All Tomorrow's Cultures

On Monday, I downloaded #AmAnth17 tweets.   This proved in many ways elusive and piecemeal.   First, the conference hashtags continue to shift.   Last year, the AAA finally discovered that the #AAA hashtag had other meanings and other audiences, among them AIDS activism in Japan and a pop music awards program in Korea (both of which prompted lively Twitter conversations this year).   Their efforts to promote alternative hashtags resulted in confusion, with people tweeting at #AmAnth17 (the ‘official’ hashtag), along with #AmAnth2017 (which would have been logically consistent with previous years) and, for the hell of it, #AAA2017. So the graph below includes tweets with any one of the three, with the top 50 Twitter users (by in-degree centrality) labeled.  Here are the general metrics on this network.   Graph Metric Value Graph Type Directed Vertices 426 ...

This morning, before I left for AAA, I took a few moments to download #AmAnth17 tweets.   As you might expect, there was more twitter traffic than last week (603 edges), but still loosely connected (i.e., a low density) and still concerned mostly with advertising panels and other events.    Directed Vertices 425 Unique Edges 603 Edges With Duplicates 261 Total Edges 864 Self-Loops 248 Reciprocated Vertex Pair Ratio 0.043233083 Reciprocated Edge Ratio 0.082882883 Connected Components 72 Single-Vertex Connected Components 54 Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component 317 Ma...