Australian
Twitter communities are
more diverse than you
might think
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What are the major drivers of
Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form?
These are the questions that guided a new, long-term study of the
Australian national Twittersphere that my colleagues and I have undertaken.
Drawing on
TrISMA, a major multi-institutional facility for social media analytics, we identified some 3.7 million
Australian Twitter accounts in existence by early 2016, and captured the 167 million follower/followee connections between them.
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More about
Axel Bruns,
The Conversation,
Australia,
Diversity, and
Twitter