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# Mapping My Twitter Network
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/03/mapping_my_twitter_network/
- Published: 2009-03-27T11:30:26.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:28:28.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: community, social networks, X (Twitter)

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I first saw this over \[on Kris’s blog\](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine\_lowe/2009/03/my-secret-twitter-network.html), but my colleague \[Martin\](http://www.itsdevelopmental.com/) was kind enough to actually put \[my details into the mailana service\](http://twitter.mailana.com/profile.php?person=adders). And what does it do? Well, it maps your Twitter network based, I think, on the degree of inter-messaging between the people on it. 

It’s tempting to read to much into this, but some trends do emerge. Just up and to the right of me is a tight core of online journalists and online journalism educators, who talk amongst themselves a lot. \[Mr & Mrs Charman-Anderson\](http://strange.corante.com/) appear to talk to each other quite a lot. RBI folks all appear to be scattered around the periphery, with relatively weak inter-communication. \[Graham\](http://www.noodlepie.com/) appears to a small hub in his own right. 

I saw these graphs used a lot back in my active \[Livejournal\](http://adders.livejournal.com) days, and I do think that they illustrate clearly just how much these services are, in fact, social networks, even if they don’t fit the Facebook-style model we associate with the term.