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broke: relying on opaque Twitter algorithm to find new people to follow bespoke: directly perusing follower graph of interesting people to find new people to follow
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Basic methodology: grab followers with Twitter API, import into Gephi, filter out accounts with >100k followers, compute "Modularity", color code based on modularity, size nodes based on in-degree, layout with ForceAtlas2.
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It's fun to play "identify the communities". Any help in the ones I can't identify or mess up are appreciated. Suggestions for accounts to do next are welcome. PM me if you want any of the Gephi files.
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I like what LinkedIn did here as well, where they show you the clusters and allow you to name them yourself. I care far less about using the graph to browse as I do to gain insight over my thoughts that can only really happen when I have the big picture