How Occupy Wall Street Occupied Twitter, Too - Technology Review
On October 13, the day NYPD planned to clean up Zuccotti Park, the original site of the protest, the network of people talking about the Occupy movement, represented in the graphic above, was huge. By then, entities like @HuffingtonPost and individuals like @KeithOlbermann were among the influential participants.
Researchers like Lotan are just beginning to dig deeply into the rich data sets produced every day by the users of online social networks. In the November issue of Technology Review, David Talbot describes how Bluefin Labs mines the public conversations and opinions of Twitter users for insights about entertainment, advertising, and politics.