Who are the most influential users?

[swood-ecology]

This will likely include two factors--the people who have been liked/retweeted the most (but could be one person who had a really popular tweet) and who are the people with the most sustained influence?

Are there particular types of users these people are popular among?

What is the content of their tweets that makes them popular?

[jrfishe1]

Can you look at cascading tweets / likes? So there could be two aspects:

1. How many total tweets / likes result from one person's tweet / retweet / like (e.g. I tweet something, two people retweet, one dies, and one gets retweeted by 1,000 others, so I've got 1,002 retweets)
2. How many direct tweets / likes does a given person's tweet get (e.g. in the above example, I'd only have 2, while the more influential person who picked it up would have 1,000). I'll send a paper on this

[swood-ecology]

@jrfishe1 is aspect_1 indirect influence and aspect_2 direct influence à la the paper you referenced?https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2158