Visualizing my twitter network with Zoom.it

I wrote a small Java tool to download my twitter network as a GEXF file. This tool is available on github at:

https://github.com/lindenb/(...)/TwitterGraph.java

java -jar twittergraph.jar -o twittergraph.gexf 7431072 #my twitter ID

This tool doesn't use the OAuth API, so it have to wait for a few minutes, and retry to connect, every times it reaches the twitter API quotas (150 requests per hour). In the end it took one night to download the data from my network (~390 friends).

<gexf
xmlns="http://www.gexf.net/1.1draft"
xmlns:viz="http://www.gexf.net/1.1draft/viz"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
version="1.1"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.gexf.net/1.1draft http://www.gexf.net/1.1draft/gexf.xsd">
<meta lastmodifieddate="2011-02-04">
<creator>Gephi 0.7</creator>
<description/>
</meta>
<graph defaultedgetype="directed" timeformat="double" mode="dynamic">
<attributes class="node" mode="static">
<attribute id="name" title="name" type="string"/>
<attribute id="screenName" title="screenName" type="string"/>
<attribute id="imageUrl" title="imageUrl" type="string">
<default>http://a3.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_1_reasonably_small.png</default>
</attribute>
<attribute id="location" title="location" type="string"/>
<attribute id="description" title="description" type="string"/>
<attribute id="protectedProfile" title="protectedProfile" type="boolean"/>
<attribute id="friends" title="friends" type="integer"/>
<attribute id="followers" title="followers" type="integer"/>
<attribute id="listed" title="listed" type="integer"/>
<attribute id="utc_offset" title="utc offset" type="integer"/>
<attribute id="statuses_count" title="statuses count" type="integer"/>
</attributes>
<nodes>
<node id="6612402" label="sciencebase">
<attvalues>
<attvalue for="name" value="David Bradley"/>
<attvalue for="screenName" value="sciencebase"/>
<attvalue for="imageUrl" value="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1142396198/twitter-blue-bradley_normal.jpg"/>
<attvalue for="location" value="Cambridge, UK"/>
<attvalue for="description" value="Science Writer David Bradley based in Cambridge, UK. Physical and life sciences news and views + technology, internet, web commentary."/>
<attvalue for="protectedProfile" value="false"/>
<attvalue for="friends" value="2022"/>
<attvalue for="followers" value="9197"/>
<attvalue for="listed" value="1065"/>
<attvalue for="utc_offset" value="0"/>
<attvalue for="statuses_count" value="7526"/>
</attvalues>
</node>
<node id="19344270" label="EMBOcomm">
<attvalues>
<attvalue for="name" value="Suzanne Beveridge"/>
<attvalue for="screenName" value="EMBOcomm"/>
<attvalue for="imageUrl" value="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1189685782/S_Beveridge5100_normal.JPG"/>
<attvalue for="location" value="Heidelberg"/>
<attvalue for="description" value="Follow me for the latest from EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Organization"/>
<attvalue for="protectedProfile" value="false"/>
<attvalue for="friends" value="396"/>
<attvalue for="followers" value="697"/>
<attvalue for="listed" value="59"/>
<attvalue for="utc_offset" value="3600"/>
<attvalue for="statuses_count" value="632"/>
</attvalues>
</node>
<node id="20153702" label="walshtp">
<attvalues>
<attvalue for="name" value="Tom Walsh"/>
<attvalue for="screenName" value="walshtp"/>
<attvalue for="imageUrl" value="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/644287976/IMG_0815_normal.JPG"/>
<attvalue for="location" value="Dundee, Scotland"/>
<attvalue for="description" value="Scientific programmer and sysadmin. "/>
<attvalue for="protectedProfile" value="false"/>
<attvalue for="friends" value="129"/>
<attvalue for="followers" value="99"/>
<attvalue for="listed" value="8"/>
<attvalue for="utc_offset" value="0"/>
<attvalue for="statuses_count" value="783"/>
</attvalues>
</node>
<node id="15150655" label="konradfoerstner">
<attvalues>
<attvalue for="name" value="Konrad Förstner"/>
<attvalue for="screenName" value="konradfoerstner"/>
<attvalue for="imageUrl" value="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/643611092/konrad_avantar2_normal.jpeg"/>
<attvalue for="location" value="here and there"/>
<attvalue for="description" value="Idealist, Scientist, Includist, Data analyst, Open Source|Data|Access, Coder, Command line friend, CouchSurfer, Konrad"/>
<attvalue for="protectedProfile" value="false"/>
<attvalue for="friends" value="266"/>
<attvalue for="followers" value="167"/>
<attvalue for="listed" value="17"/>
<attvalue for="utc_offset" value="3600"/>
<attvalue for="statuses_count" value="1948"/>
</attvalues>
</node>

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The GEXF file was then opened with Gephi, processed with the ForceAtlas algorithm and exported as a PDF file.

The PDF file was uploaded on scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/48415306/My-Twitter-Network

My Twitter Network

I then, downloaded the PDF from scribd.com, quickly copied the URL of the generated PDF and pasted it into http://zoom.it/.

Here is the result ! :-)



That's it !

Pierre