Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year now, and I felt like it was time to move on. What do I mean by move on? Well, until recently, I’ve been hanging out on mastodonapp.uk as my “home” instance but, me being the self-hosting nerd that I am, I knew that this was not a … Read more
As I’ve mentioned in many of my blog posts before this one, Mastodon has a publicly available API which can be used to scrape statuses, collect hashtags and much more. One feature that I have yet to mention in this blog is the ability to stream statuses as Mastodon features a streaming API for processing … Read more
Your social network is bigger than you think! I remember what got me really interested in social network analysis as a field of academic study was just the scale at which these networks grow. Whether we are looking at how people talk with others or share things with other people, these interactions can grow to … Read more
On Thursday, Meta (you know, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) launched a new social media platform. It’s called Threads and it can be described as “text-based” microblogging platform similar to that of Twitter and Mastodon with around 55 millions users. With the downfall of Twitter, Meta seeks to add its own competitor … Read more
There is no doubt that the recent coronation of King Charles III was a massive event in the UK. Whether you’re in favour of the monarchy or not, there is no doubt that the coronation event is a big talking point. This was certainly the case on Mastodon – my preferred microblogging platform of choice. … Read more