Before revision:  There is currently a disconnect between the practitioners of online social media analysis - usually social, political and communication scientists - and the accessibility to tools capable of handling large quantities of online data, and examining online users and their behavior. We present two tools,birdspotter and evently, for analyzing online users based on their involvement in retweet cascades . birdspotter provides a toolkit to measure social influence and botnets of Twitter users.
After revision:  There is currently a disconnect between the practitioners of online social media analysis - usually social, political and communication scientists - and the accessibility to tools capable of examining online discussions of users . birdspotter provides a toolkit to measure social influence and botnets of Twitter users.