The Norwegian Twittersphere: Structure and Dynamics

Bruns, Axel; Enli, Gunn

doi:10.2478/nor-2018-0006

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New Norwegian Twitter accounts created per month, with interface language settings current as of February 2016.

Norwegian Twittersphere network. Edges not shown. Nodes positioned using Force Atlas 2 algorithm in Gephi (Jacomy et al. 2014); node colour gradient from blue to red represents increasing number of followers.

Norwegian Twittersphere network. Node colour based on Louvain community detection algorithm (modularity resolution 0.5; Blondel et al. 2008), implemented in Gephi. Clusters labelled following qualitative review of leading accounts in each community.

Key interconnectivity metrics for the 30 largest clusters

Cluster Name	External connections (within Norway)	Internal connections	E-I index	Accounts receiving in-cluster edges (%)
Blogs & Humour	105,580	108,279	−0.01	84
Oslo/National News & Culture	137,996	38,945	0.56	34
Sports: Football	148,587	42,748	0.55	77
Music & Radio	131,715	28,498	0.64	74
Online Entertainment	56,123	23,501	0.41	63
Comedy	103,527	24,287	0.62	65
Netizens	128,251	30,409	0.62	87
Others	68,682	14,714	0.65	67
Travel & Leisure	91,932	16,338	0.70	76
Development & Environment Policy	107,269	16,478	0.73	90
Troms/Nordland News	67,720	15,938	0.62	86
Western Country News	60,573	14,160	0.62	82
Business & Innovation	93,165	13,412	0.75	77
Political Debate	117,442	13,749	0.79	81
Cultural Debate	93,687	14,193	0.74	85
Science, Innovation & Education	93,286	12,394	0.77	88
Health Policy	82,485	11,490	0.76	87
Music & Entertainment	14,267	3,985	0.56	37
Religion & Politics	59,466	8,831	0.74	84
Social Elites & Satire	28,997	3,086	0.81	31
Business & Media	137,708	8,397	0.89	88
Trøndelag News	22,950	6,380	0.56	86
Food & Drink	53,193	5,400	0.82	79
Sunnmøre News & Culture	27,212	5,583	0.66	88
Photography	25,621	5,217	0.66	91
Irony and Curiosa	14,470	4,584	0.52	84
Hordaland/Bergen News	33,295	3,294	0.82	72
Østfold News	30,769	3,076	0.82	86
Oslo Region	7,067	2,549	0.47	81
Gambling	22,391	2,463	0.80	84
Sexuality	15,278	1,765	0.79	61

Key activity metrics for the 30 largest clusters

Cluster Name	Accounts in group	Protected	Verified	Median join date	Total tweets	Tweets per account	Average tweets per day	Median tweets per day
Blogs & Humour	131,311	4,855	3	23.07.2012	100,736,580	767.16	0.6840	0.0258
Oslo/National News & Culture	118,483	980	5	05.08.2013	7,721,647	65.17	0.0966	0.0007
Sports: Football	55,107	1,047	61	01.05.2012	32,649,497	592.47	0.4078	0.0146
Music & Radio	38,094	1,106	72	07.12.2011	17,978,740	471.96	0.2811	0.0118
Online Entertainment	36,969	618	6	12.06.2013	15,610,716	422.27	0.5028	0.0199
Comedy	34,845	1,297	2	17.01.2012	12,155,711	348.85	0.2022	0.0071
Netizens	34,033	1,652	10	29.05.2010	17,344,820	509.65	0.3689	0.0129
Others	22,126	910	6	26.08.2012	8,240,985	372.46	0.3333	0.0056
Travel & Leisure	21,715	881	12	28.04.2012	13,018,976	599.54	0.4179	0.0051
Development & Environment Policy	19,256	752	18	23.08.2012	7,017,327	364.42	0.2932	0.0100
Troms/Nordland News	18,285	691	1	16.05.2012	4,246,332	232.23	0.1527	0.0031
Western Country News	17,478	630		08.04.2012	3,664,045	209.64	0.1487	0.0036
Business & Innovation	17,299	616	4	07.07.2012	3,535,449	204.37	0.1665	0.0036
Political Debate	16,763	450	6	27.01.2012	9,751,181	581.71	0.3220	0.0167
Cultural Debate	16,711	614	5	30.01.2012	6,656,536	398.33	0.2273	0.0103
Science, Innovation & Education	14,309	610		11.04.2012	5,140,675	359.26	0.2200	0.0089
Health Policy	13,742	507	5	20.09.2012	3,780,448	275.10	0.1906	0.0052
Music & Entertainment	11,242	178		06.10.2012	927,497	82.50	0.0667	0.0009
Religion & Politics	10,076	397	1	29.02.2012	2,840,294	281.89	0.1665	0.0068
Social Elites & Satire	9,854	277	2	05.06.2012	1,017,314	103.24	0.0841	0.0007
Business & Media	9,240	757	1	23.04.2012	27,420,052	2,967.54	1.9127	0.0890
Trøndelag News	7,271	468		17.04.2012	3,454,163	475.06	0.3217	0.0190
Food & Drink	6,957	259		14.05.2012	1,993,346	286.52	0.2221	0.0048
Sunnmøre News & Culture	6,567	316		30.03.2012	2,787,846	424.52	0.2706	0.0158
Photography	6,055	343	1	01.03.2012	2,075,153	342.72	0.2139	0.0099
Irony and Curiosa	5,278	194		04.04.2012	1,579,698	299.30	0.2087	0.0086
Hordaland/Bergen News	4,493	165		05.06.2012	1,097,836	244.34	0.1451	0.0035
Østfold News	3,550	185		24.03.2012	1,078,426	303.78	0.1702	0.0029
Oslo Region	3,165	267		17.06.2012	3,058,934	966.49	1.0260	0.0314
Gambling	2,976	116		20.08.2012	670,343	225.25	0.1566	0.0042
Sexuality	2,826	132		19.11.2012	1,448,780	512.66	0.6536	0.0066
Total	716,076	22,270	221	08.07.2012	320,699,347	447.86	0.3544	0.0066

The Norwegian Twittersphere: Structure and Dynamics

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Key interconnectivity metrics for the 30 largest clusters

Key activity metrics for the 30 largest clusters

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