1. About this document

This document was produced by Emily J. Rollinson (@ejrollinson on Twitter).

The code generating this document was originally developed by Francois Michonneau (@fmic_ on Twitter) for the 2015 Evolution meeting and can be found here.

I originally adapted this code for the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting (#ESA100) in Baltimore, MD, and have since reproduced it for a series of ESA and Botany meetings. I modified it in 2020 to use the rtweet package instead of twitteR to aggregate tweets, updated the code used to generate the wordcloud, and modified the formatting of the plots. In 2021, I updated the code to embed top tweets using tweetrmd. A new section was added in 2022 following this suggestion from Az Klymiuk.

Tweets using the hashtag #Botany2022 were aggregated from Twitter using the R package rtweet and the Twitter API. The summary statistics are static as of 09:00 AM EDT 7/28/2022. Additional tweets, retweets, and likes after that point are not included in the summary, although embedded tweets are “live” and up-to-date.

This document was generated using RMarkdown, and the source is available on GitHub.

This document (and associated code) is released under a CC0 license.

2. Basic summary

Of the 5426 tweets tagged #Botany2022 between 2022-07-24 and 2022-07-28:

Description n
Total of original tweets (no retweets): 1377
Number of users who tweeted (including retweeting): 1173
Number of users who tweeted (no retweets): 318

3. Building a Botany Twitter community

The figures in this section were made following this suggestion from Az Klymiuk. Thank you!

Number of users retweeted

This figure summarizes breadth of retweeting among users of the #Botany2022 hashtag during the conference - how many different users did a given account retweet?

Bar plot showing the number of different accounts retweeted by each user, within tweets using the #Botany2022 hashtag between Sunday July 24 and Wednesday July 27, 2022. Each bar shows the number of accounts that a particular user retweeted within this hashtag, for the 50 users that retweeted the most other accounts. For instance, SarraceniaMason retweeted tweets using the #Botany2022 hashtag from 120 other accounts. Top 5 - @SarraceniaMason (120), @Bethbo_beth (85), @MartineBotany (69), @angelajmcd (67), @AnnaScharnagl (58). The values in this figure are also included in the plain text tables lower on this page.

Number of retweets of smaller accounts

‘Smaller’ accounts is defined here as accounts with fewer than 250 followers. (This is approximately 25% of accounts using the hashtag.) Such smaller accounts collectively tweeted 158 of the 1377 original tweets using the #Botany2022 hashtag. The counts here are number of tweets, rather than number of accounts - each RT of a tweet from a small account is tallied here.

Bar plot showing the number of times users retweeted tweets from smaller accounts using the #Botany2022 hashtag between Sunday July 24 and Wednesday July 27, 2022. 'Smaller' accounts is defined here as accounts with fewer than 250 followers; this is roughly one quarter of all accounts using the hashtag during the conference. The values in this figure are also included in the plain text tables lower on this page. The figure includes all accounts that retweeted something from more than 1 'smaller' account. Top 5 - @SarraceniaMason (25), @Bethbo_beth (16), @kheyduk (12), @angelajmcd (12),, and @imenarv (11)

Number of small accounts tagged

Bar plot showing the number of times users tagged smaller accounts (within tweets and accounts using the #Botany2022 hashtag between Sunday July 24 and Wednesday July 27, 2022). 'Smaller' accounts is defined here as accounts with fewer than 250 followers; this is roughly one quarter of all accounts using the hashtag during the conference. The values in this figure are also included in the plain text tables lower on this page. Top 5 - @mossMatters (9), @imenarv (6), @JillWegrzyn (6), @vuruputoor (5), @MartineBotany (4).

4. Number of tweets

Only for original tweets (retweets excluded)

Bar plot showing number of tweets, excluding retweets, using the #Botany2022 hashtag between Sunday July 24 and Wednesday July 27, 2022. Each bar shows the number of tweets by a particular user, for the most prolific 50 users. The top 5 users are @SarraceniaMason (56 tweets), @MartineBotany (51 tweets), @ejrollinson (45 tweets), @M_Gostel (40 tweets), and @mossMatters (38 tweets). The values in this figure are also included in the plain text tables lower on this page.

All generated tweets (including retweets)

Bar plot showing number of tweets, including retweets, using the #Botany2022 hashtag between Sunday July 24 and Wednesday July 27, 2022. Each bar shows the number of tweets by a particular user, for the most prolific 50 users. The top 5 users are @SarraceniaMason (359 tweets), @MartineBotany (181 tweets), @Bethbo_beth (145 tweets), @angelajmcd (126 tweets), and @kheyduk (103 tweets). The values in this figure are also included in the plain text tables lower on this page.

5. The 5 most liked tweets

6. The 5 most retweeted tweets

7. Word cloud

The top 100 words among the original tweets, excluding retweets, hashtags, mentions, URLs, and common English words (“the’,”&“, etc.).

Word cloud showing the most common words found in original tweets (not retweets) using #Botany2022 hashtag between Sunday July 24 and Wednesday July 27, 2022, excluding common English words like 'the' and 'and'. The complete corpus of words used to generate this word cloud, along with their frequency, is also shown in the plain text table lower on this page.

8. Data tables

Data tables for the figures above.

Most accounts retweeted

Number of retweets of small accounts

Number of mentions of small accounts

Top tweeters, excluding retweets

Top tweeters, including retweets

Corpus (Word cloud)

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