How to construct an Twitter actor network based on TweeterID?

[vmasias]

Dear Team,

I would like to create and export an actor network using TweeterID instead of the Username.

This information is very important to compare networks over time.

How can I solve this issue?

Sincerely your,

Víctor

[timothyjgraham]

Hi Victor,

Thanks for touching base. Do you wish to create a network of follower/friend relations, starting from a particular user ID?

Presently we have not implemented the ability to create these "ego" types of networks for Twitter. But it is high on the list of features.

Tim

[rjackland]

Another interpretation of Victor's request is that we add a vertex attribute to the actor graph, the Twitter id for the user.

I thought a quick fix might be a match/merge between the 'name' attribute in the actor graph (which is twitter handle) and a column in the data frame returned by Collect(), but it seems that Twitter user ids are not stored in the data frame (or at least not all of them).

Rob

[vmasias]

Thank you both!!!.

I mean, I would like to add a vertex attribute to the actor graph, the Twitter id for the user (not the screen name). But I dont know if the data frame store the TwitterId, or how to match/merge the name attribute with the twitterid. It is possible to add the Twitterid to the node ID?

Vic!

[timothyjgraham]

@vmasias Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. I have been busy but will look at it this weekend. I can't recall from memory if the dataframe uses name or ID. If it is not using ID, then this is a problem, and I will fix it in the development branch here on GitHub. Stay tuned.

Tim