[Air-L] Spam and Twitterology

[Barry Wellman]

2 ways in which Spam can affect your Twitterology

1. Looking at an ego-centered personal community of tweeps when a large 
chunk of them are spammers will affect the size and network 
structure of your findings.

2. Looking at the geographical spread of tweeps (a whole network 
analysis), when a large chunk of spammers ....

Of course, YMMV

  Barry Wellman
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