Follower count to enhance the network plot
The users who retweet most will add more value if they have a high follower count as their retweets will reach a wider audience.
In a network plot, the combination of vertex size indicating the number of retweets by a user and vertex color indicating a high follower count provides clear insights on the most influential users who can promote a brand.
In this exercise, you will create a plot showing the most influential users.
The retweet network nw_rtweet, the dataset followers with the follower count, and vert_size created in the last exercise have all been pre-loaded.
The library igraph has been pre-loaded for this exercise.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing Social Media Data in R
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Categorize follower counts above and below 500
followers$follow <- ___(followers$___ > ___, "1", "0")
head(followers)