Category Archives: Twitter

Grillo, Twitter, i BOT e l’estate 0

La ricerca di Marco Camisani Calzolari sui follower di Beppe Grillo sta sucistando un gran vespaio [PDF]. Tra le minaccie dei fan di Beppe Grillo, le critiche sul metodo, le richieste di “credenziali accademiche” e il punto di Michele Ficara ci sono tutti gli elementi per un social-media caso estivo. E quindi la domanda è: [...]

#terremoto – earthquake / part3 0

This is the third post about the analysis of the Twitter reactions to the earthquake of May 20th in the northern part of Italy. Sadly it won’t be the last one since on Monday night a new and stronger earthquake struck the same area so our dataset will keep growing. I really wish we had [...]

#terremoto – earthquake / part2 0

After the first analysis of what happened on Twitter during the first 24 h after the earthquake that on May 20th struck the northern part of Italy, we can now go a little deeper in our description by focusing on two specific time-frames. According to what we’ve pointed out in the previous article there were [...]

#terremoto – earthquake 0

On the night between May 19th and 20th a magnitude 5,9 earthquake struck the northern part of Italy between the provinces of Modena and Ferrara. As a part of our Social network Italia research project we were already monitoring a set of Twitter hashtags and #terremoto (earthquake) was among those. Then we have been able to [...]