I decided to upload my Diploma Thesis to scribd.com. Maybe some things are of value for students and other researchers. Of course nothing is perfect and as far as i know Wikipedia has changed its format a bit, so the code in the appendix may not be applicable anymore and is probably quite far from perfect . The Performance of Online Communities
Last week i stumpled upon the awesome simile widgets (a spin off of the simile project at MIT) and after playing around with timeline and timeplot for a while I thougt about bringing my who tweets about fun-project to the next level.
e.g.: who tweets about garmz and when?(click on the dates to see the tweets)
Due to Twitters search api limitation (1500 tweets) this is of limited use with popular topics. So I looked for an alternative source of tweets and found twapperkeeper.com which offers a number of tweet-archives on various hashtags.
I adapted the code and came up with this visualization of the days after jackos death(I removed the tweets due to their enormous number):
wer meublounge kennt, dem muss ich auch das konzept hinter garmz nicht lange erklaeren...
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Auf jeden Fall interessant und weiterzuverfolgen! Viel Erfolg garmz! Vielleicht trifft man sich ja mal irgendwo und tauscht sich ein wenig aus (wie ueber xing schonmal angedacht!)
who tweets about garmz? (Keep up with the BUZZ, Wer ueber garmz in den letzten tagen tweetet ist in der stets aktuellen cloud! Wer oft darueber tweetet ist groesser dargestellt):