Cluster BB

• There are 3 people in this cluster

• love life and positivity, stars dont shine without darkness💓👑🌌

• Senior research associate at the @verainstitute in New York.

• Intellectualism

Cluster KB

• There are 2 people in this cluster

• Research methodologist @qualtrics & lecturer @uvuwsb; sharing my own opinions about surveys, polls, research, and politics.

Cluster FC

• There are 3 people in this cluster

• Economist, Sociologist and 90% Leftist

• Ph.D| Director of @EvCC East County Campus| Visionary| Future Book Author| Sociology & Art| DVS Board Member| I am #blackgirlmagic| #imakethingshappen

• Academic, Coaching Psychologist, Speaker & Author I Well-being, work-life balance and personal development for sustainable career growth.

Cluster PB

• There are 14 people in this cluster

• Socióloga, feminista y ahora viviendo en Londres.

• Egalitarian, advocate for human rights, and totally 1337 at Skyrim

• PhD student in Sociology at NYU. Inmigrante mexicano en la diáspora estadounidense. Policy wonk aficionado. Amante del discurso social. Global citizen.

• The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families is a research hub to improve the lives of low-income Latino families. RTs/follows ≠ endorsements.

• sociologist, PhD, sociology of food and eating, food studies, visiting scholar at Ryerson University, culture of food, gastronomy, my life my wife my son

• Phd researcher, Engineer, Visiting Scholar @FSW_VU @OrgVU ,HRM, #organizationalspace, #NWW #SpaceoftheBody #visualresearch #semiotic |Rep-at-large @cms_aom

• Trans feminist genderqueer activist; Former @ILGAWorld Co-Secretary General; Program Officer Intersex Human Rights Fund @AstraeaUpdates; @UrgentAct Board Member

• Communications coordinator @UMichNCID (personal account). Opinions = my own. Ann Arbor transplant. She/her/hers. #highered #firstgen #pseudodysphagia

• urban/digital/political sociologist

• Na co dzień w #CSRwPL. Tu #żużel, #historiażużla, #marketingsportowy #CSR wymieszane na wszelkie sposoby. W @GKMGrudziadzSA historia/media/CSR. #WannabePhD

• A Political Scientist now working in the area of Social Policy and attitudes, particularly looking at questions on who should get what and why and immigration.

• Senior Acquisitions Editor, @UWAPress. Personal account.

• Ph.D. Behavioral Economist, Economic Anthropologist.

• PhD candidate. Sociologist focusing on teacher occupational status, teacher working conditions, and the knowledge base for teaching. Tweets my own. she/her

Cluster AA

• There are 4853 people in this cluster

• Mom, grandmother, online student, Paperly consultant, and lover of the handwritten note.

• I’m a PhD. student in the School of Media, Communications & Sociology at the University of Leicester. I am looking at the phenomenon of male suicide.

• Public Policy, Sex Offenders Leg, Mediator; Online Education Consultant; Auburn & CAU Grad; DST, Inc 🐘

• PhD Student (Sociology of Ed) at @Cambridge_Uni. Junior Research Associate undertaking occasional projects at @LKMco.

• My interests in the areas of research include examining psychological interventions for people who are socially excluded or who are experiencing problems

• ✈️

• Whatever I tweet or publish here are my personal views. I don’t tolerate impolite, rude, or fake profiles.

• Digital anthropologist at large, founding director of the Aspen Institute Kyiv, Kulturträger, strategy consultant

• Race, education & immigration scholar/sociology professor/Jamaican anti-racist mama/lover of nature, ital food & the African diaspora/dancer of reggae & soca

• Coach, Speaker

• PhD candidate & @NSF GRFP Fellow @UW. Data and social science, governance, political behavior. 🏳️‍🌈

• Gentleman scholar

Cluster YA

• There are 8 people in this cluster

• Founder & CEO, Covacsis Technologies Commoditizing intelligence

• I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together……….

• IG: @ellzebub_

• Coach Kruzich’s tweets for Ankeny Centennial Jaguar Girls Track & Field’s family, fans & friends. Running down our dreams!

• Fueled solely by California rolls. Host of the soon-to-be podcast @VisitingHistory.

Cluster DA

• There are 808 people in this cluster

• Dr represents knowledge, No, represents the revolution. Reading is to master the oppressive coding of our world, in order to try and dismantle it. Peace to all.

• Assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Florida State University. Demographer. Studies the human dimensions of climate change. Open Science advocate.

• Journalist / Music Producer / Creative Consultant

• piano teacher / prof de piano (ICM Institut de Culture Musicale)

• Assistant Professor of Sociology @ UCSB. Views are my own.

• #Twitterstorian-adjacent trying to make it in the new world of social media. Academic Interests: #Europe, #Ottoman Empire, Imperial #Germany

• Mes tweets n’engagent que moi (et encore…)

• Sociopedia.isa is an online journal that publishes review articles in the social sciences. Entries provide a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of the literature.

• • Military news • Combat veteran • Police Officer • Trainer snap: groundoffensive

• Sociologist interested in inequalities, gender and health. Views are my own. RTs not an endorsement

• Sociologist, technologist, ethicist, poet, artist.

• Writer. Coach & Mentor. Sociologist. Interested in generations.

Cluster HC

• There are 2 people in this cluster

• Sociology instructor at the University of North Georgia, future PhD and lover of all things academic. #CheckYourPrivilege

Cluster WA

• There are 2 people in this cluster

• Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh | Capoeirista | Runner | Math Ed and Social Justice Conference Co-Founder | All views are my own | BLM

• Cultural Power in Xi’s #China. #Consumerism. Father 父亲, Husband 丈夫, Brother 兄弟, Son 儿子. Lecturer in Int’l Business/Deputy Director BA in Business Mgt @CovUniSSL

Cluster EC

• There are 2 people in this cluster

Hall of fame

One interesting starting point is to examine who these users follow.

And possibly more interesting is those in which they most dominate the followership, so ordering this time by the number of followers in this dataset divided by the total number of followers.

Co-followership among the top 500

Now let’s look at a network of co-followings within those users most followed by ASA.

I’ve constructed a “surprise matrix” which measures how often two users are followed relative to how often we would expect. For example if \(a\) has \(10\) followers and \(b\) has \(15\) followers out of \(100\) people in our sample, we would expect that a proportion $10/100 * 15/100 = $ 0.015 of our 100 users should follow both purely by chance. So if we observe that a full \(8\) of the \(100\) follow them both, that should get our attention, whereas only \(1\) should be entirely disregarded. The difference between the actual proportion and the proportion expected by chance will be the weights in the following plots.

Negative co-following relationships

Below we’ve listed those pairs which cooccur less often than we would expect, indicating negative ties.

Bottom line here is we’re not seeing much avoidance. Although following one user says a lot about who others you would follow, it doesn’t exclude you from following anyone, at least among these top 500.