Journals on Twitter

Number of followers, following, and tweets from public Twitter accounts for several scientific journals and some societies, publishers, and blog networks. Collected between October 2011 and January 2013.

When plotted, there seem to be a few very fast-growing Twitter account, and a few slow ones, but the majority of accounts in this set (selected mainly based on initial follower number - see below) grows with the same rate.

Sample set was originally chosen to compare the performance of the @Dev_journal Twitter account, so the initial selection contains mostly accounts within that same range, with some smaller accounts for sibling journals (from the same publisher) added without control for their size. (In other words: this is only useful to compare accounts that fall within the bulk of the graph.)

New accounts were added later - those lack data for the first months. Over the course of data collection, two Twitter accounts were abandoned - those lack data for the last months.

Data were collected in the middle of the month. The exact collection date is listed at the top of each column. Within each month, numbers for all Twitter accounts were collected on the same date.