Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Detecting Influential Figures During the General Strike of the Public Sector in Slovenia

Creating a program that captures all the tweets that contain the selected keyword or hashtag I was able to retrieve the tweets about the General Public Strike in Slovenia.

By using Gephi I speeded up the sequence of posts for the last two days and recorded the evolution of social network. Once having all the data it is possible to detect the most influential people and communities as well.

Here is the snapshot of the network, created in last two days: Public Strike on Twitter