Russian Twitter Map

Drawing from a corpus of over 50 million Russian language tweets collected between March 2010 and March 2011, researchers at the Berkman Center created a network map of 10,285 users comprising the ‘discussion core’ of Russian Twitter and clustered them based on a combination of network features. The resulting segmentation revealed key online constituencies active in Russian Twitter.

Read the full report: John Kelly, Vladimir Barash, Karina Alexanyan, Bruce Etling, Rob Faris, Urs Gasser, and John Palfrey, "Mapping Russian Twitter," Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2012.