Network lab
What you’re looking at
Each dot is one X/Twitter account we captured. Two dots are connected when the same pair of accounts retweeted the same originals at least twice. Thicker lines mean they kept showing up together. Orange-tinted lines mean the co-retweets were within a tight window (under 60 minutes apart, or under 15 — darker = tighter).
Use this to see who moves together: paint the dots by role, cohort, or anomaly rank; narrow to only fast-coincident edges; pin two or more accounts to reveal the shortest chain linking them through the currently-visible network. Your filter state lives in the URL, so views are shareable.
Key terms
- Cohort
- A recurrent crew — accounts that co-retweet the same originals again and again, usually within a tight time window. Higher score = smaller, tighter, more target-concentrated group.
- Amplified target
- An account whose posts get concentrated retweet pressure. Ranked by a mix of reach, who-sends-them (the fewer senders the higher), and how often the same small crew shows up.
- HHI
- Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. 0 = evenly spread across many amplifiers; 1 = one account does it all. Media/PR amplification tends to sit high.
- Repeat-crew overlap
- For a target’s biggest cascades, how much the same group re-appears. 0 = different crowd each time; 1 = identical crew.
- Cohort tightness
- Median time gap between co-retweets within the cohort on the same cascade. Lower = members arrived near-simultaneously.
- Anomaly rank
- Unsupervised isolation-forest ranking over the feature matrix. Rank #1 is the account that looks most different from the norm in the full behavioral profile — not a verdict, just a review signal.
- Weighted degree
- How many co-retweet-weighted edges an account has in the overlap graph. Hubs show high weighted degree.
- Component
- A connected island in the overlap graph. Accounts in separate components never co-retweeted the same originals with anyone reachable via this sample.
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