An adjusted force-directed graph showing the in-degree rankings for tweets sent on November 8, 2017: the darker the colour, the greater the in-degree. The two larger nodes in the bottom-right corner belong to Twitter accounts for Lou Dobbs and Sebastian Gorka.

An adjusted force-directed graph showing the out-degree rankings for tweets sent on November 8, 2017: the darker the colour, the greater the out-degree. Note that Trump does not actually use the hashtag on the anniversary of his election to office (yellow indicates a null value).

 

Social Network Analysis

Using Gephi, I mapped the network of relationships between users of the #MAGA hashtag as shown in the visualizations to the left. Node size is determined by its in-degree, or the number of directed edges pointing towards it; the larger the node, the greater the number of tweets mentioning the user.

The text label size is based on the number of followers the user has.