Representing relationships in online conversations

Edgesense represents the online conversation as a network of comments. User i is connected to user j if i has commented a piece of content (including comments themselves in threaded forums) authored by j. Such a network is directed – i can comment j's content without j in her turn commenting i – and admits loops – i can comment her own content.

Other types of networks are not currently supported, but might be in the future:

• affiliation networks (i and j are connected if they both comment the same post)
• followership networks (i is connected to j if i follows j's update)
• mention networks (i is connected to j if i mentions j)
• voting networks (i is connected to j if i expresses a vote or Facebook-style Like for content authored by j