A very simple rundown of my analysis process:

1. Public Timeline Polling - During the period of the #iranelection events, my I would poll Twitter's public timeline, looking for keywords such as "#iranelection","#gr88","ahmadinejad","mousavi".

2. Text Matching Algorithm - as new tweets entered my database, making matches between those that belong to the same conversational thread.

3. ReTweet analysis - mapping out the network structure by which messages spread between users.

4. Text differentiation analysis - looking at syntactical differences between tweets from within each thread. This highlights the "broken telephone" aspect of ReTweeting, where every user can choose to change and add to the message as it is passed onwards.

*more to come*