Discovery by Affinio

@rrhoover I kind of wish it operated on ALL of my followers, not just 10K. Makes the value of the experience a little more limited, but I get they have to try to convert users to customers some how.

Thanks @phil_renaud and team for setting me up (here's their tweet). Shout out to all my Belieber followers! cc @john

@gillianim ditto, it really sucks that they shut down that feature, it was incredibly useful!

Oh, and thanks so much to @byosko for featuring us!

@phil_renaud really cool stuff. i'm impressed. Can you tell me a lil more about that crazy colored dot D3 visualization? Are all those nodes 1 to 1 real followers? and what do the connected lines mean, that they follow that other person? Really cool

@drawby Hi @drawby, glad you liked it! The network graph visualization is representational, but not 1:1 (our graphs have a max node count anywhere from 300 to 1500, depending on your device type). The connected lines represent, between groups, shared influencers; and within a group, likelihood of a given user knowing other users. It's a simpler model than we use when generating graphs for affinio.com (which can have up to 20 groups), but it tells the same sort of story.

@joshdance Hi Joshua - thanks for trying it out! We opted not to show the users themselves and instead show their common influencers to keep Discovery lean. However, it's worth mentioning that in the full product at affinio.com , much more follower info is available (in aggregate, including content trends, etc.)