The two-day State of the Net Conference wrapped up last Wednesday, January 19th, with the most comprehensive net policy agenda, prominent experts in Internet policy and law, and 500 attendees from around the country.
As with most conferences these days, participants could continue discussion online by following the event’s hashtag, #SOTN.
We pulled all 1,500+ #SOTN tweets
and created a word cloud.
This allowed us to better understand the most prevalent discussion themes and influential people in the online social sphere.
Here are some of our findings:
- Tweets were heavily weighted the first day, with 1,151 on 1/18 and only 351 on 1/19.
- The most retweeted individual was Alex Howard. His Twitter handle, @digiphile, was actually the most used word throughout all tweets.
- Other top influential tweeters included Nigel Cameron, Adam Thierer, Clay Shirky, Steve Worona, and Berin Szoka.
- Prevalent topics of discussion on Twitter surrounding the conference were privacy, net neutrality, and copyright infringement.
- The URL http://bit.ly/ee0ouU was one of the top 100 words found in all tweets. It links to a blog post that announces Twitter as “Company of the Year” for Data Privacy Day and calls tweeters to #ThankTwitter and show their support.
See our deck below for a full analysis:
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