How Occupy Wall Street occupied Twitter, too

November 10, 2011
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Network graph showing all tweets containing the #OccupyWallStreet hashtag 10 days after its first use (credit: SocialFlow)

Thanks to a start-up called SocialFlow, we can see how Occupy Wall Street propagated through influential people and organizations, and across previously invisible conduits to permeate vast expanses of Twitter’s network, Technology Review Editors reports.

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The huge network of people talking about the Occupy movement, on October 13 (credit: SocialFlow)