What are the patterns of image diffusion during the Nepal Earthquake?
by Kari Santos, Heather Witte, Zachary Lamb, Fadhil Suhendi, Denis Kazakov

Questions

Does a user tweet in a language other than their default language? (contributed by Heather)

What user's tweet got retweeted the most? (contributed by Zach)

For retweeted images, does the number of followers of the original tweeter have a direct effect on the number of retweets? (contributed by Kari)

X axis = number of followers
Y axis = retweet count
It doesn't seem that the number of followers of the original tweeter has an effect on the number of retweets.

What were average retweet ratios on each day?(assumption that as days pass on, people scroll twitter less => less retweets) (contributed by Denis)

How many original tweet in location Kathmandu, Nepal? (Fadhil Suhendi)

# Discussion The answers submitted here probably cause more additional questions to be raised than full answers. For instance, what causes a tweet with an image to be retweeted? Is it the "interest" of the image? It doesn't seem to correlate with the number of followers of the original tweeter, but what if you looked at the follower count of the retweeters? If a tweet is retweeted by someone with a large following at any time in the retweet path, perhaps that's what makes it go viral. Do tweets with comments in less popular languages have less of a chance of going viral? What is the typical "lifecycle" of a tweet and are there common patterns? How quickly to tweets leave the location of a disaster? More tweet data over a longer duration and a second round of analysis would prove very interesting.