Example Twitter Search Report: #solo12

A graphical report on a search for up to 1500 recent tweets tagged #solo12.

First, who is being RTd, and how often were they RTd in the sample?

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Let's start by seeing who's been tweeting most amongst the sampled tweets…

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And who's been RTd most:

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It's easy to add in Google Chart component sortable tables (click on column header to sort by column):

Start off with some simple summary tables of who's been tweeting, RTd, etc.

Top ten users by ‘RT of’ and ‘from’ count
	Name	rtofCount	toCount	rtbyCount	fromCount
1	LouWoodley	39	10	12	51
2	dellybean	30	5	6	50
3	SpotOnLondon	25	5	13	43
4	Protohedgehog	24	1	20	24
5	DrJennyWoods	24	1		20
6	grace_baynes	20	1	3	22
7	eperlste	16	6	2	15
8	hapsci	15	4	2	24
9	JennyRohn	12	4		4
10	Gurdur	10	5		34

Top ten users by ‘RT by’‘ count
	Name	rtbyCount	rtofCount	toCount	fromCount
1	Protohedgehog	20	24	1	24
2	SoapboxScience	14			15
3	SpotOnLondon	13	25	5	43
4	LouWoodley	12	39	10	51
5	laurawheelers	11	5	1	30
6	AnneOsterrieder	11	3	2	27
7	mattjhodgkinson	10	2	1	10
8	Science_Grrl	9	6	1	12
9	sharmanedit	8	7	4	19
10	clearsci	8	5	2	17

Top ten users by 'from’‘ count
	Name	fromCount	rtbyCount	rtofCount	toCount
1	LouWoodley	51	12	39	10
2	dellybean	50	6	30	5
3	pssalgado	46	6	8	2
4	SpotOnLondon	43	13	25	5
5	Gurdur	34		10	5
6	nailest	30	5	9
7	laurawheelers	30	11	5	1
8	AnneOsterrieder	27	11	3	2
9	quelet	25	4		1
10	Protohedgehog	24	20	24	1

Now let's try an accession plot (based on an oriiginal idea by @mediaczar)

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The accession plot shows the accession of folk using the search term in the tweet sample, and each of their sampled tweets thereafter.

We can add value to the chart by colouring tweets to see which were original tweets and which were RTs.

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We can also limit the chart to only show original tweets:

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Or only show RTs:

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Let's look to see what tags were used in the sample four times or more:

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