Introduction to Network Analysis on Twitter

Twitter/X is a platform where users interact through tweets, replies, mentions, and retweets. These interactions form dynamic social networks that are well suited to the analysis of influence, information circulation, and community relations.

In this section, we begin with a user network based on replies, that is, interactions from a “source” account to a “target” account. This approach makes it possible to:

  • visualize engaged communities;
  • identify influential nodes;
  • understand how ideas circulate through networks.