What are the edges when we select tweets as nodes?

[arlorostirolla]

Hi! and thankyou for your very helpful library. I'm trying to model information cascades in a tweet network, and i'm thinking it might be be more effective to use tweets/retweets as nodes. I was wondering what the edges are when you use tweets as nodes? Is it usernames who have interacted with that tweet? Regards, Arlo

[JoanMassachs]

Let's consider two tweets A and B: There is an edge from a A to B if A is a retweet, a reply or a quote of B. Then, the edge has only one attribute called type with value retweet, reply or quote.

The other information is stored in the nodes as attributes, that are the following:

• user_id: The id of the author of the tweet.
• screen_name: The username of the author of the tweet.
• start_date: The date of the first interaction that made the node appear in the graph. For example, if the node is a retweet, a reply or a quote, it is its date of creation. Or if the node is an original tweet, it is the date of the first retweet, reply or quote it received.

[arlorostirolla]

Awesome, Thankyou!