Analyse retweet ratio to determine social influence.

Twitter supports two kinds of responses to any particular tweet, Retweets and Quote tweets. Quote Tweets are much like Retweets except that they include a new Tweet message.

There is a general belief, RTs are not endorsements. On contrary, retweets do suggest an inclination towards the tweet. Else why would one Retweet?

Current analysis on social influence bases on Quoted tweet to Retweet ratio. To dig deeper, sentiment of Quoted tweets needs analysis and planned in next phase.

Let us put this analysis on recent tweets of few prominent personalities and see how they fare.

Up to 150 related tweets (Retweets and Quoted tweets) on 10 recent tweets is being used for analysis.

• To start of let us check Donald J. Trump and Barack Obama.

• Let us bring in some celebrities, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey.

• There is General elections around the corner in India. So let us check how Narendra Modi compares with his bete noire Rahul Gandhi.

You can try running similar analysis on other twitter handles of interest in 3 simple steps.

• Authenticate with Twitter API.

Note: To get credentials you need to sign up with Twitter.

• Fetch related tweets based on recent tweets of prominent personality or entity.

• Plot stacked bar graph for visualization.