Let’s Get Visual: Infographics of the Twittersphere
Hello World! My name is Kate Guy and I’m a Creative Industries student at QUT. I became involved in this project through the VRES (Vacation Research Experience Scholarship)....
The Week in Telemetrics: Advanced Metrics & Fine-Tuning
A new week, and so time for an update on progress in Telemetrics. In general, the last 10 days has primarily been concerned with adding additional fields and detail to our....
Introducing Telemetrics: The Weighted Tweet Index
Back in October, as I was flying to and from Denver for the AoIR conference, I was reading a number of books about sporting metrics, In one of these, “Trading Bases”,....
Football fandom in the Brazilian Twitterland
Most people around the world know how passionate Brazilians are about football. More precisely, around 80% of the population there is at some level a football fan, a recent....
Australian Reality TV on Twitter: A Two Horse Race
Last weekend provided an opportunity to compare the three currently running Australian reality television series, and their social media presence, with Big Brother Showdown....
Big Brother 15, West Coast Viewers & Guilt by Association
Over at my own blog, I have been running an almost-daily series of posts looking at the current US reality series “Big Brother”, now in its 15th incarnation in the US....
Selling it like it is: Paid editing & Wikipedia
The origin of edits, of who is best placed to write about a particular topic, is a controversial issue in Wikipedia. Editing the encyclopaedia is a volunteer activity, editors....
A Month of Vines: An early look at Vine through Twitter
With my CCI colleague Jean Burgess, we have recently been tracking the development and use of Vine through our existing Twitter tools. More on accessing and tracking Vine....
The First Million IDs on Twitter
Following on from Friday’s post, in which we looked at a number of recent accounts on Twitter, this post considers the first million Twitter IDs. When did they join? As....
Who’s Joining Twitter? A look at 1 million recent IDs
Currently, at QUT Social Media HQ, we’re in the process of developing the new version of our Twitter capture software, led by CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky. During development,....