{"id":185,"date":"2010-03-03T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:50:22","slug":"a-first-look-at-the-dev8d-twitter-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2010\/03\/03\/a-first-look-at-the-dev8d-twitter-network\/","title":{"rendered":"A first look at the dev8d twitter network"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days before setting off for dev8D<\/a>, I set a script running to log the changes in friends\/followers of twitter accounts related to dev8D.<\/p>\n

In looking at the data, I’ll talk about three sets of twitter users:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wiki users – this is anyone who has registered on the dev8D wiki with a twitter account. Anyone is this category is assumed to have been an attendee at dev8D.<\/li>\n
  2. Dev8D community users – this is anyone who has mentioned ‘dev8D’ in a twitter post or is a wiki user<\/li>\n
  3. Total users – someone who has been followed by or follows someone in the two categories above<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So far I’ve just looked at the smallest possible category: those who registered on the dev8D wiki<\/a> with their twitter accounts, numbering 113 in total.<\/p>\n

    I captured 9 days of useful data, from 22nd Feb 2010 to 3rd March 2010.<\/p>\n

    The Numbers<\/h2>\n

    In summary:<\/p>\n

    Those 113 attendees followed:<\/p>\n