In the THFM, the primary keys are terms that have been observed in tweets.
They then built a large graph of these folk and observed their tweets and conversations over several months.
Based on a short early-afternoon time period wherein this reporter observed incoming tweets, support for Harambe seemed to be on pace with that of Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who is similarly getting a couple tweets per minute.
Just observe their tweets from the opening 6-1 loss to Nigeria in which Marama Vahiruau is compared to Lionel Messi and the optimistic, exuberant hashtags are aplenty... I'm crying: The Brazilian Screaming fans: Tahiti.
The transition flow is a temporal ordered list of cities where the given user was observed through geocoded tweets.
Based on this dataset, we can observe all Tweet-Retweet (TR) events for every monitored Speaker over the course of 10 days, and so we can ask whether a Speaker has gained one or more new followers among the set of Listeners of her retweets.
"Odd men," one tweeter observed rather mildly.
The majority of tweets are observed after the trending point, with a rapid increase around trending time.
This is due to the fewer activity gaps observed in the collected tweets of the active users compared to the random users.
Tweets, it observed, can be "expressions of opinion, assertions of fact, gossip, jokes (bad ones as well as good ones), descriptions of what the user is or has been doing, or where he has been, or intends to go".
