There are many external metrics that we can use to monitor progress of Steem/it. In this post I will begin to examine Twitter activity, where and by whom the word Steemit is mentioned in the last 7-10 days.

* Do you Tweet?
* Would you like to see some stats on who the biggest Tweeters are?

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For the last few weeks I have been discussing useful metrics, which I will shortly begin producing on a regular basis, to help monitoring the growth and development of activity on the Steem Blockchain. 
**Keep an eye out for my upcoming analytic reports which will show a view of the most useful metrics over one week time horizons.**

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Today I will take a deep dive into Twitter activity close to home. 

## UK & Ireland (Tweets in Last Week)
I want to extend this analysis out globally but first I wanted to analyse the UK & Ireland in detail, and discuss here what may be useful to look at on a regular basis.

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For this first graphic I have not covered the whole country (just the main cities). The main activity displayed on the graph centers on London, where not only the biggest number of tweets are coming from but also where the tweeters with the most followers are tweeting from. 



## Top 5 Twitter Accounts  
Lets take a look at the distribution of top tweeters in the UK. A lot of people tweet about Steemit but here I want to see which tweeters get the most exposure. I have created the top 5 out of the accounts with the most followers that have tweeted with the keyword "steemit" in the last week.
This graph is quite hard to read but it shows the number of tweets for the top accounts in each of the major UK cities.

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* The twitter accounts with the most followers tweet only once about Steemit in this period on average.

**The most interesting City in this graphic is London so lets zoom in on the top 5 tweeters there.**

### London to 5 Tweeters
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* @lilachbullock with 105k followers has made a tweet about Steemit this week. 
You can read about it in the following link https://twitter.com/lilachbullock/status/955453394029891584

## Daily Numbers of Tweets
There are only a few tweets daily from each of the cities I looked at, with the exception of London. London Displays some interesting features, so lets look at that in more detail. The following graph shows the number of tweets per day in London, with the colours differentiating between tweets and retweets. 

blue bar is count of retweets
red bar is count of tweets
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* On the 24th of January there was a huge spike to 348 tweets, up from a daily average of about 30. As can be seen in this graphic most of the activity is related to retweets. 

**So what was all the activity about?**

## Wordcloud of Tweet Text
Wordclouds are a useful tool to bring out text data and give an insight into what has been said in a body of text. So lets look at London tweets on 24th of January
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* @vaniccilondon was the person doing all the retweeting on this day and the words give a fairly good indication of what was discussed in the tweets.

## Sentiment of Tweets
The last ML technique which I can run on this data today is some basic sentiment analysis. What sort of sentiments were in the tweets from London on 24th of January.
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* This pacakge I am using for sentiment works well on English language but I wont be able to roll this analysis out easily to other languages.

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## Discussion
This activity report for Twitter will take a while to roll out globally but it would also be interesting to look at how other social networks are mentioning Steem/it and how this activity is changing on a weekly basis. 

**What metrics from this post did you find most useful?**

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## Related Posts

I am taking a deep dive into the Accounts and Activity of Users in this series of posts. I will be producing regular reports based on the outcome of this series. You may also be interest in:

* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-post-payouts-and-steem-health-part-2
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-post-payouts-and-steem-health
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-comment-data-and-automated-accounts
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-post-data-and-automated-accounts
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-network-growth
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-distribution-of-posting-rewards-by-account
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-distribution-of-posts-by-account
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-account-activity
* https://steemit.com/stats/@eroche/steem-geographical-distribution-of-accounts

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