Twitter ego-network: @MineralsCouncil
The @MineralsCouncil Twitter ego-network has 2 very distinct communities:
- the mining industry community, and
- the civil society, political and non-mining business community
which reflects what a peak body / lobbying organisation is: both entrenched in it own industry and exerting influence outside of it.
.The orange and blue communities are small and harder to label.
Couple of nuggets:
- the mining sector is intertwined with the trading sector, both small shareholders (playing the ASX) and institutional, international trade (chambers of commerce) at the bottom of the network graph. By nature these trading sub-communities sit at the intersection of the industry and civil society communities.
- the civil society community reflects the variety of actors interested in keeping a tab on @MineralsCouncil : politicians (including @AngusTaylorMP), journalists & media outlets (AFR, Guardian, Fairfax, The Conversation), economists, environmental organisations, farmers and rural associations, @TheIPA, ... and the variety of reasons why @MineralsCouncil is followed on Twitter. It's a testament to a sophisticated, very well oiled PR machine that extends its sphere of influence to the very top.
- the mining industry community exhibits several clusters: the coal and shale clusters at the top, international mining organisations on the left, various commodities (gold around the @GOLDCOUNCIL, copper, diamond, ...) in the bottom left.
- the mining industry community, and
- the civil society, political and non-mining business community
which reflects what a peak body / lobbying organisation is: both entrenched in it own industry and exerting influence outside of it.
.The orange and blue communities are small and harder to label.
Couple of nuggets:
- the mining sector is intertwined with the trading sector, both small shareholders (playing the ASX) and institutional, international trade (chambers of commerce) at the bottom of the network graph. By nature these trading sub-communities sit at the intersection of the industry and civil society communities.
- the civil society community reflects the variety of actors interested in keeping a tab on @MineralsCouncil : politicians (including @AngusTaylorMP), journalists & media outlets (AFR, Guardian, Fairfax, The Conversation), economists, environmental organisations, farmers and rural associations, @TheIPA, ... and the variety of reasons why @MineralsCouncil is followed on Twitter. It's a testament to a sophisticated, very well oiled PR machine that extends its sphere of influence to the very top.
- the mining industry community exhibits several clusters: the coal and shale clusters at the top, international mining organisations on the left, various commodities (gold around the @GOLDCOUNCIL, copper, diamond, ...) in the bottom left.