How the Cryptocurrency Community Interacts on Twitter

co-written with Jona Harris (@realjonaharris on Twitter)

Anyone who has been following the cryptocurrency scene already knows how lively the discussion is on Twitter. We wanted to have a bit of a look at the relations between the different parts of the community so we turned to some basic social network analysis. We took a look at who “liked” whose tweets, and ran algorithms meant to find the social groups in the graphs.

The map that we get very clearly shows the social relations between various sub-communities as you’d expect if you’re following the cryptocurrency scene (for example, Bitcoin cash and Bitcoin Core are not very friendly towards each other).

Disclaimer: We do not really cover the entire space. See below how we generated our maps and collected data. Data was collected over a short period of time and may not fully reflect the social interactions over longer periods.

Here’s the map in all its glory (click here or on the pic for a full sized version).

Accounts related to cryptocurrencies. Edges represent “likes” of tweets.

Looking a bit closer at the results shows us the community structure:

The lime-colored area is one that roughly matches “Bitcoin Core”.