Not to dwell on Musk, but I was reminded of this dot plot…
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Elon Musk’s posting (and sleep) schedule
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Failed community notes to stop misinformation on Twitter
Twitter has a Community Notes feature that attempts to flag posts that contain…
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Twitter slows competitor links
When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…
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Who pays for Twitter
Twitter Blue is a subscription service from Twitter that primarily provided premium features…
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Republican and Democrat follower counts on Twitter
You might have heard that Elon Musk bought Twitter, and among the many…
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Deleting your tweets with R
Twitter isn’t in a great place right now, so maybe you want to…
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Wordle analysis through the lens of 15m tweets
I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s this game called…
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Small JavaScript library for density plots
Twitter released a small JavaScript library to make density plots — for when…
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All of the insults
For NYT’s The Upshot, Kevin Quealy has been cataloging all of the insults…
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Bitcoin scam, Twitter hacked
Twitter was hacked yesterday. Over a few hours, prominent accounts were tweeting that…
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How a meme grew into a campaign slogan
A meme that cried “jobs not mobs” began modestly, but a couple of…
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Visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations
Peter Beshai was tasked with visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations. He arrived…
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Download 3 million Russian troll tweets
Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight:
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Twitter bot purge
With Twitter cracking down, some users are experiencing bigger dips in follower count…
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Changing Twitter, with Statistics
Earlier this year, The New York Times investigated fake followers on Twitter showing…
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Tweeting a map of every Census tract in the United States
By Neil Freeman, the @everytract bot on Twitter, as the name suggests, is…
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Bot or Not: A Twitter user classifier
Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
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Finding fake followers
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…
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LaVar Ball trolling to the top, through a tweet count lens
I didn’t know who LaVar Ball was, and suddenly, it was non-stop sports…
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Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…