Interconnectivity is easier in the 21st century than ever before. In addition to increasingly developed transport links and transport infrastructure, a key channel of communication and connectivity has become the internet, through which more and more people connect daily. The platforms that have made mass connectivity possible are called online social networks. These are becoming an increasingly important tools for tailoring new social networks, which increases the need for their study. Statistical analysis and social network analysis have become particularly important in this area. With these methods, I will study three social networks which contain keywords of three biggest Slovenian cities that I will extract through the social network Twitter, with the help of programs that allow extraction of data through Twitter’s Application Programming Interface. To explore the properties of the three selected networks, I will use basic methods for social network analysis, and I will use statistical analysis to test the hypotheses.
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