Thread by @MenanderSoter

Several people asked me for a way to interactively explore visualizations of Twitter networks (especially with search). Here it is: twitterverse.net

Features:
- 2D and 3D
- Search
- Zoom, pan, etc
- Includes names and bios
- Multilevel communities
- Mobile (2D)

When you click a search result it will take you to the node. (In grouped mode, it will also scroll to the account's location in the list of accounts in the supernode)

Here's what multilevel communities look like. The graph gets smaller and easier to read at higher levels. Notice that the colors are consistent between levels. (The orientation isn't, currently. I.e., it might be rotated or flipped between the levels.)

Accounts are put into communities which are then merged into supernodes (one supernode per community). The process then repeats at higher levels: communities are found among the supernodes, then all the supernodes of a community merge into a supersupernode.

More here on grouped mode and multilevel communities twitterverse.net/faq#grouped-mo… and twitterverse.net/faq#community-… Here's an example of a list of accounts in a supernode

On desktop, you can double click a node to focus it and show nearby labels. If you then hit Enter you will start orbiting through nearby nodes of the same community.

Here's what 3D looks like. You can fly around with keyboard controls. (No 3D on mobile yet, sorry). Everything works similarly to 2D mode.

Mobile has zooming and panning, but it currently only supports the 2D version of the first grouped level, i.e. "2D 1G". If I figure out a clean way to switch levels from mobile I'll add that.

I've put some more details about all this here twitterverse.net/faq and you can find the directory with the three graphs currently on the site here twitterverse.net/graph (it has the list of seed accounts, description, etc)

The default graph "Supergraph 68" combines the follow networks of 68 Twitter accounts. It includes the accounts I've already posted on Twitter (23), plus 45 more. I'm going to rudely @ those 45 people

Seed accounts I chose for twitterverse.net/graph/supergra…:

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@aaronzlewis @alexvespi @anthilemoon @barabasi @benawad @chenoehart @cosnet_bifi @CreeepyJoe @danshipper @dantaeyoung @default_friend @eigenrobot @emilyriehl @frnsys @gravity_levity @hypotext @JadeMasterMath @jaredpalmer

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@jure @ken_wheeler @koszuldude @littmath @made_in_cosmos @mayli @mrdoob @mszll @nayafia @neauoire @niftynei @pholme @PiratePeel @RealSexyCyborg @rtfeldman

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@schlagetown @shanekilkelly @sigfpe @startuployalist @suchaone @tesseralis @theannagat @ThouArtThat @Tipsycaek @tobyshorin @vtraag @Wattenberger

@schlagetown @shanekilkelly @sigfpe @startuployalist @suchaone @tesseralis @TheAnnaGat @ThouArtThat @Tipsycaek @tobyshorin @vtraag @Wattenberger You can find the full list of 68 people here twitterverse.net/graph The other 23 people (whose graphs I've already posted on Twitter) are:

@schlagetown @shanekilkelly @sigfpe @startuployalist @suchaone @tesseralis @TheAnnaGat @ThouArtThat @Tipsycaek @tobyshorin @vtraag @Wattenberger "Supergraph 68" has 34,080 people. Even with the grouped graphs it can be overwhelming to look at. If you want to look at smaller graphs, I've included two others:

I've included a graph with network scientists as seeds twitterverse.net/graph/networks… (without their work this wouldn't be possible)

Seeds are @alexvespi @barabasi @cosnet_bifi @jure @mszll @pholme @piratepeel @vtraag

And, I've included a graph with "digital actualizers" as seeds twitterverse.net/graph/digitala…

Seeds are: @andy_matuschak @conaw @michael_nielsen @stevekrouse

Thank you @anvaka for advice and past work which heavily inspired this site. @benawad for feedback and React advice. @greggman for Three.js help. @tiagopeixoto for creating graph-tool and answering my questions about it.

Thank you @HunterBergsma for feedback. @GiulioRossetti for answering my questions about community detection.

@andy_matuschak @Conaw @michael_nielsen @stevekrouse Some of the supernodes will have a list of phrases at the top. These are just common phrases found in the bios of the accounts in that supernode. It might help you figure out who's in the supernode (or it might mislead you)

#sobsquad

@HunterBergsma @GiulioRossetti All mistakes and misinterpretations my own