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Twitter Superstars:. What Does Celebrity Success on Twitter Look Like?. Sean Carey, Carol Chen, Yo-Shang Cheng, Anjana Dasu. Modifications. Added celebrity photos Thinned out lines, made grey ones lighter Changed the filters from checkboxes to buttons
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Twitter Superstars: What Does Celebrity Success on Twitter Look Like? • Sean Carey, Carol Chen, Yo-Shang Cheng, Anjana Dasu
Modifications • Added celebrity photos • Thinned out lines, made grey ones lighter • Changed the filters from checkboxes to buttons • Added followers as an axis, and as buttons • Added search • Added average line • Explored use of color
User Tests • 4 users, 2 alternate visualizations • ¾ users follow celebrities: Shaq, Conan O’Brian, Nathan Fillion, Neal Patrick Harris, Sockington, Tim O’Reilly, Chris Connell • 10-15 minute talk out loud exploratory tests
Users… • Were drawn to playing with the parallel coordinates • Guessed celebrities’ Twitter shapes • Wanted to find celebrities’ lines again • Found the number of Followers and Tweets per day to be interesting as axes • Became really excited about seeing their own success line
Design Decisions • Worked on making button filters intuitive • Added instructions on how to use the parallel coordinates axes and how to Add Yourself • Added a progress bar for the Add Yourself function • Added Followers and Tweets per Day as axes, removed non-essential ones • Added an interactive list of celebrities to easily find success lines • Made contrast between blue and grey lines more pronounced
Future Work • Show change in behavior over time • Allow users to compare celebrities • Show who celebrities are friends with • See how terms are talked about, structure wise