A novel technique to visualize twitter acounts based on the retweet behavior of other twitter users.
The basic idea: If people are retweeting a specific account, who are they retweeting besides the account? I used it to investigate the fan base of the former head of German domestic intelligence Hans-Georg Maaßen.
The online news platform netzpolitik.org wrote an exclusive news article based on my analysis..
The article sparked some online rage since the headline was misleading. I did not have any influence in choosing the headline and only read the full article after it was published.