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@SamHames SamHames released this 01 Feb 06:42
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Adds a new preprocess type twitter_v2_likes_retweets for handling likes and retweets from the V2 Twitter API. This will allow coordinated liking to be examined using the co-retweet network type. Currently this support is very experimental and should be used with care.

An example of creating a like network from the output of the likes for a specific person:

compute_networks likes.db preprocess --format twitter_v2_likes_retweets likes_1.json likes_2.json

The only useful command for this is the "co_retweet" function, which is overloaded to match on accounts liking the same tweet. The time-window parameter is related to the logical ordering of likes (for liking-users and retweeted-by), or not used at all (for liked-tweets), as there is no precise timestamp associated with when the like happened. The logical ordering of the time window means that behaviours are considered coordinated if they are within time_window likes of each other in the stream.

compute_networks likes.db compute co_retweet --time_window 60 --output_file likes_within_60.graphml --output_format graphml