Preview of an Upcoming WEP Report
By Erhardt Graeffwith Seth Woodworth
Data Summary

111,741 tweets about Afghanistan and its presidential election posted between August 11, 2009 and September 9, 2009
11,255 tweets on August 20, 2009, the day of the election
29,642 users talked about Afghanistan in our dataset
Top 10% of tweeters contributed 65% of tweets (same as Iran Election)
Number [...]

New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter
By Alex Leavittwith Evan Burchard, David Fisher, & Sam Gilbert
Using a new methodology based on the content and responses of 12 popular users, we determined measurements of relative influence on Twitter. We examined an ecosystem of 134,654 tweets, 15,866,629 followers, and 899,773 followees, and in response to the 2,143 [...]

A Preview of WEP Report #4
When deciding whether someone is worth following or talking to on Twitter, most of us make a snap judgment based on a user’s follower count, but what does this really tell us?
For our fourth publication, the Web Ecology Project decided to move beyond follower count to find a better way [...]

Sentiment Analysis and Mourning
Michael Jackson on Twitter
By Elsa Kim and Sam Gilbert
with Michael J. Edwards and Erhardt Graeff
Michael Jackson’s death created an emotional outpouring of unprecedented magnitude on Twitter. In this report, we examine 1,860,427 tweets about Jackson’s death in order to test various methods of sentiment analysis and gain insights into how people express [...]

The First Eighteen Days

Key Findings

From 7 June 2009 until the time of publication
(26 June 2009), we have recorded 2,024,166
tweets about the election in Iran.
Approximately 480,000 users have contributed
to this conversation alone.
59.3% of users tweet just once, and these users
contribute 14.1% of the total number.
The top 10% of users in our study account for
65.5% of total [...]