Comments on: Science influence on Twitter – August update

By: Graphically comparing 523 scientwists’ Twitter stats

Graphically comparing 523 scientwists’ Twitter stats — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:15:12 +0000

[...] on from yesterday’s update on my quest to track science influence on Twitter, I’ve posted a bubble-chart of the August [...]

By: Andrew Maynard

Andrew Maynard — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:03:48 +0000

Thanks Mike.

I have been sticking with a sub-group of David’s scitwists so that the stats can be tracked over time – hence not every current scitwist is included in the analysis above.

For anyone interested in the impact statistics for ALL current scitwists, the relevant bubble charts are now available at: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/scientwists-stats-august-19-2009 These are based on Mike Chelen’s unadulterated data

As you will see, one of the problems of including everyone is that scitwists like @guardiantech dominate the followers chart. Nevertheless, this is an interesting and informative way of comparing and contrasting all the current scitwists.

If you are in David Bradley’s list – check it out!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:40:54 +0000

Glad my list is still of use and thanks for the name check once again. There are now well over 500 scientists on the list, which started out as 100 from my own twitter crowd back in January. Additions are now much more sporadic although people still occasionally retweet the link.

I wonder how the charts would look if everyone started using TwitBlock diligently to block spammy followers…

By: Mike Chelen

Mike Chelen — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:49:58 +0000

Looking at the ManyEyes data it seems some of the rows were truncated. Here is an updated copy, of August only. If anyone wants to take a look at the recent update, everything is publicly available through this Google spreadsheet.