Mapping My Twitter Network

I first saw this over on Kris's blog, but my colleague Martin was kind enough to actually put my details into the mailana service. And what does it do? Well, it maps your Twitter network based, I think, on the degree of inter-messaging between the people on it. 

It's tempting to read to much into this, but some trends do emerge. Just up and to the right of me is a tight core of online journalists and online journalism educators, who talk amongst themselves a lot. Mr & Mrs Charman-Anderson appear to talk to each other quite a lot. RBI folks all appear to be scattered around the periphery, with relatively weak inter-communication. Graham appears to a small hub in his own right. 

I saw these graphs used a lot back in my active Livejournal days, and I do think that they illustrate clearly just how much these services are, in fact, social networks, even if they don't fit the Facebook-style model we associate with the term.