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The 25 most influential news media on Twitter

Alfred Hermida — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:28:28 +0000

Here is a visualisation of the top 25 most influential news media accounts on Twitter, based on the number of followers.

It is based on a list of the 100 most influential accounts, produced by Cornell University PhD student Daniel Romero.

There is more to influence on Twitter than the number of followers, as a visualisation by Journalism.co.uk shows.

Alfred Hermida — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:25:32 +0000

With the G20 summit almost upon Toronto, here is a word cloud of the message to residents from the federal government and the City of Toronto:

And here is one of the information for demonstrators from the G20 Integrated Security Unit:

Alfred Hermida — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:54:07 +0000

Using IBM’s ManyEyes, I did a word tag visualisation of the BBC Strategy Review (PDF), to reveal the most commonly used pair of words.

The most common by far was “licence fee” mentioned 116 times. Next was “public space” with 60 mentions and “public service” at 47.

As for the two digital stations facing closure, 6 Music was mentioned 21 times and Asian Network 13.

Click on the image for an interactive version of the graphic on the ManyEyes’ site.