Dynamic Visualization (2017) Animation of #adani + #carmichael showing hub accounts in Australian Twitter discourse.

A Twitter scrape of 3,500 tweets in the TrISMA database that contained both #Carmichael + #Adani hashtags. Eachdot in this dynamic graph has a uniform size and represents a unique user account. The lines between accountsrepresent relationships defined by three types of actions: retweets, replies and mentions (in this study "mentioning"means inserting @username anywhere in the text of specific tweet). All three actions result in the soft-power ofinformation dissemination (i.e. the enhanced visibility of a message for an original user). The end result of theanimation shows hub accounts, which received multiple retweets, replies or mentions from their personal followers orthe followers of the specific hashtags. Hub accounts were, then, more influential in carrying messages, as opposed tothe non-hub accounts which failed to circulate.