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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by OmarShehata »

I'd love to see a more NLP look at this data, Google trends style. What topics of discourse come up regularly, what spikes during certain time periods? Can you summarize what economists are discussing? Can you find people talking about the same things but are not in each other's networks?

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by cwal37 »

Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday.

I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now there's some real heat to it as things pick up.

Hopefully this surge is real, has certianly gotten me to be much more active.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by Retr0id »

OmarShehata wrote: post #2

> can't make a map of all of twitter no, but nothing can stop you & a bunch of people from exporting your tweet archive and visualizing that!

Hard to get 13M people to do it, and harder to stop some subset of those 13M people polluting your dataset with fake data.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by microtonal »

cwal37 wrote: post #4

Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…

Yeah, I've had an account for quite a while now (from before registrations were open), but it was largely a ghost town. The last few days there is a lot more stuff happening in my feed. And so far free of all the drama, bots, etc.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by _ea1k »

Retr0id wrote: post #5
OmarShehata wrote: post #2

> can't make a map of all of twitter no, but nothing can stop you & a bunch of people from exporting your tweet archive and visualizing that!

Hard to get 13M people to do it, and harder to stop some subset of those 13M people polluting your dataset with fake data.

Yep, and there will be self selection biases even among people who don't export fake data.
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