A fun 3D visualization of the financial Twittersphere
Here’s a fun little update of that visualization of the financial Twittersphere I posted in May. This one is in 3D, you can zoom (with scroll wheel) and drag it around (with mouse, also see controls in top right). It might take a minute to load up, not work too well on older computers/browsers. Just wait out/ignore any popups, warnings about script on page running slowly. If the iframe below is wonky, try this full-page version.
More followed accounts are in larger font. People in similar regions and similar colors are followed by similar people and tend to follow each other. (Divided the graph into 5 regions of similar folks using a clustering algorithm and colored accordingly.)
At some point will do a more complete data science-y post on the Twittersphere graph, but still exploring fun stuff one can do with the data.