This is by way of a quick follow-on to yesterday’s post on the number of people on Twitter  following science-focused users.  As was pointed out, just logging the number of followers someone has on twitter is a poor indicator of either success or influence.  So, spurred into action, here is a rather more sophisticated analysis of the “influence” of the tweeps in David Bradley’s list of “Scientific Twitter Friends:”

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This is not the clearest graphic – even if you click on it to open a larger version – so you might like to play around with the the original.  A limited interactive version showing social capital second order followers is also included below. As in the previous post, they are based on data visualization routines on the Many Eyes website…