Learning Social Media Analytics with R

Follower graph analysis

So far, we have analyzed Twitter and tweets to uncover some interesting insights using techniques and concepts of trend analysis and sentiment analysis. We've utilized different attributes of tweets, like creation time, location and even the text itself, to answer certain questions. In this section, we will touch upon Twitter's network aspects. #BraceYourSelves

A social network is a network or a graph at its core. In formal words, a social network is generally a graph representing its users as nodes (or vertices) linked to each other based on certain relationships called edges. Each social network has its own definition of these relationships. For this section, we will focus on Twitter's relationships and network in general. ...