Visualization of this weeks #FYCChat twitter chat
I missed the #FYCChat digital tools in the composition classroom discussion earlier in the week and created this visualization to help me follow the conversation threads.
I missed the #FYCChat digital tools in the composition classroom discussion earlier in the week and created this visualization to help me follow the conversation threads.
Each node is a tweet tagged with #digped during yesterday’s 1 hour conversation hosted by Hybrid Pedagogy. Links show conversation threads.
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The following is a list of five links selected randomly from all links shared via twitter using the #moocmooc hashtag during the 7 day MOOC about MOOC‘s held in August 2012.
Five random links from #moocmooc:
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Some notes on the data:
** Update Data now complete through midnight Saturday. Tweet count for the final day was 264.
I have been watching the twitter traffic #moocmooc all week. Here is an interactive graph showing daily tweets by time over the six plus days since the MOOC MOOC started. The data is current through ~9:45 am EST on Saturday the 18th.
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I have been trying to participate in the MOOC MOOC on and off all week. They are relying heavily on twitter as a mechanism to stimulate group interaction and to aggregate information. This is common practice and is done by including a hashtag such as #moocmooc in all of the tweets you want seen by the group.
I noticed early in the week that some of the tweets I tagged with #moocmooc were not showing up in the stream. As the week progressed, more and more of my tweets failed to show up. In order to find out why, I submitted the following support ticket:
Regarding: Search and trends
Subject: Tweets on home page but missing in search
Description of problem: My tweets are being posted and are visible on my home page but are not showing up when I search by hashtag or use “from:andrewstaroscik”This makes it very difficult to participate in group interactions that are dependent on aggregation by hashtag
Full name: Andrew Staroscik
Twitter username: @andrewstaroscik
Notice, it is not just #moocmooc, my tweets don’t even show up in a search of tweets based on my own username.
After a few less than helpful email exchanges, I received this rather dismissive message earlier today:
a_nace, Aug 16 10:16 am (PDT):
Hi andrewstaroscik,Thanks so much for your email. This article covers common reasons why some Tweets might not be found in search: http://support.twitter.com/articles/66018-i-m-missing-from-search
Please note that to provide the best possible search experience for all users, as well as due to resource constraints, not every Tweet will display in search results. We’re striving to include as many Tweets as possible while keeping search quality high.
Rest assured that your followers will still see all your Tweets and @mentions. The best course of action is to continue tweeting, retweeting and mentioning others to gain resonance amongst your followers so that search results are up to date for your account.
We really appreciate your feedback and I’ve reported it to our team for review.
Best,
a_nace
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I am sharing this partly out of frustration and partly as a cautionary tale to educators enamored with the potential of twitter to promote connectivity. Twitter has great promise, but it is not perfect. When I figured out that my tweets were not going to show up in the #moocmooc stream, I felt less connected to the community and stopped following the thread. Not a big deal for me, but it is something educators might what to keep in mind if they are going to rely on hashtags in distance learning. Novice twitterers may be especially vulnerable to exclusion.
For some reason, the twitter filter algorithm has deemed my use of the #moocmooc hashtag as inappropriate.
Funny that the spammers are not having any trouble getting through.
And… none of this explains why “from:andrewstaroscik” gives flawed results.
Here is an update of yesterday’s graph containing the first three days of activity binned in 15 minute intervals.
Spam started appearing in the thread midday yesterday and accounts for some of the increased traffic in day’s 2 and 3, but I have not tried to figure out how much.
Interesting that the 10 pm (est) video discussion replaced the the 6 pm social hour on day three.
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Stats for the first three days:
Things to keep in mind:
Three more wordle using all the tweet data tagged with #moocmooc since August 8th through about 9 am this morning.
The first was generated using the same criteria as the one generated yesterday. The data for this was pulled at around noon EST on Wednesday:
follow this link view on the wordle site
The second one is based on the same set of tweets but all of the @usernames were removed to reveal the most common words:
follow this link view on the wordle site
Finally this one shows the most active tweeters. This is drawn from the same 3478 tweets using only the user names of each tweet. The largest names generated the most tweets. Wordle splits words at underscores, so I had to remove all underscores. This means names such as chris_friend show up as chrisfriend.
follow this link view on the wordle site
About the data: