I can answer your second question -- I looked at the Twitter accounts of that lower red-blue group. They are all entrepreneurs or software industry people, most of them with straddling the Arab world and the West.

Impressive work...

Same question as Martin, which criteria did you use to select the base subset of twitter accounts?

Did you use standard software or did you program something on your own to generate this?

Thanks Kovas,

What are the criteria for determining the size of the nodes? (Number of retweeets? Number of mentions? Number of followers? Some combination between these?)

Thanks again, great work!

I totally missed the PDF, nice

Thank you.

awesome, but I can't find my name :(

This is great work, I would like also to know the criteria and the methodology used. My name is there separated from Ghonim by 2 nodes. Actually, I don't feel like I do such an effect and I was amazed that my bubble is relatively big. can you give me insights please?

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Strangely gone from the thread of comments yesterday was an observation on the potential lethal uses of this chart. Vanderleun said:

Chart junk that assumes twitter users represent actual power nodes within the Egyptian population. It would be more interesting to track possession of weapons in the society than possession of twitter accounts.

The primary use of this chart, should evil men choose to find and record it, would be to be able to target people too likely to tweet for freedom for early elimination.

The idea is that something must be one thing or another is very oversold. Quite obviously something may be junk and at the same time be dangerous. Is that not so?

The fact remains that what you have made and promulgated here is a list of dissidents. A very handy list of dissidents for good or for evil.

The Muslim Brotherhood is, everywhere it takes root, an organization whose effects and policies lead to evil ends and death. Like all totalitarian organizations they have an inordinate fondness for lists.

As I am sure you, more than most, must be aware data is neither good nor bad in and of itself. It depends on the uses to which data is put and data may be put to multiple uses.

I trust this simple explanation has made the criticism more coherent to you. I sincerely hope that you don't come to know the graves this chart may someday make possible.

But should that happen you can take comfort in knowing that you really didn't have a direct hand in making them a reality, you simply supplied the data.

I'm I am impressed by the chart, but interested in the comment by ggildferr, which actually quoted another comment by Vanderleun, which has disappeared. It was Vanderleun who talked about chart junk and was slightly incoherent. ggildferr wondered where the comment had gone, and supported the suggestion, or fear, that the chart might be misused by those who suppress dissidence and activism. The comments seem valid to me, though the chart is fascinating.
Is no one else wondering a) why Vanderleun's comment has disappeared, or b) if security agents are possibly busy making a list?
I agree with Vanderleun and ggildferr that what for some is a fascinating piece of analysis made perhaps with a scientific interest ("junk" in the sense that it exists in its own right) could be seen by others as a useful tool for suppression, "lethal" to those people who are represented in the chart.
I hope very much that they are well-protected. I appreciate this forum for its considered, polite, well-written and constructive comments.

Great work Kovas!

Opensourcing the code would be awesome!

Regarding ggildferr, political wise, this is just the most pathetic comment I ever witnessed. I hate the MBs, but they are not totalitarian, at least most of them (the non-heads).

Regarding lethal means, evil. Really, WTF, twitter is one of the most open tools ever created, and if they are powerful on twitter, they are known in the media, their mere exposure protects them if they are detained. What you, Kovas, is doing here, is displaying influence and relations, more than "exposing" those who are already "exposed" to the Egyptian public twitterosphere.

Thank-you for this. Would love to see the same done for Tunisia too, and maybe with another level of detail. It's so interesting and enlightening to see the visual representation! Looking forward to more.

Can you please explain how you made this?

Without an explanation it is a work of art, portraying a very important battle. A bit like an artist painting the Storming of The Bastille.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Anonymous_-_Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg

Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.

It is -also - art.

You should sent it to http://iamtahrir.com/