Melissa Harris-Perry Audience Graph • Social Signal

The top 10 neighbors for Melissa Harris-Perry span politicians, actors, activists, journalists, and a non-profit — a cross-subcategory mix compressed into a narrow similarity band running from 0.98 to 0.96. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; the tight range means no single neighbor pulls decisively ahead.

The composition is the finding. NAACP leads at 0.98, the only non-profit in the set. Cornel West (0.98) is the one fellow academic in the top 10. From there the cluster fans out across subcategories: politicians Maxine Waters (0.97) and Donna Brazile (0.97); actors Wendell Pierce (0.97) and Taye Diggs (0.96); news publisher The Root (0.97); artist Ava DuVernay (0.97); professional Ben Crump (0.97); and activist Shaun King (0.96). No single subcategory dominates — politicians and actors each claim two slots, but neither controls the cluster.

What this shape reveals is an audience that moves fluidly across civic, cultural, and media figures rather than concentrating around any one type.

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Attention graph /similar sample results (free):

https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/similar/mharrisperry

{ "handle": "mharrisperry", "title": "Melissa Harris-Perry", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Academics", "resolved": "mharrisperry", "k": 10, "shape": "flat", "filter": null, "results": [ { "handle": "naacp", "title": "NAACP", "category": "Organizations", "subcategory": "Non-Profit", "similarity": 0.9839, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "G03", "I01" ] }, { "handle": "cornelwest", "title": "Cornel West", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Academics", "similarity": 0.98, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "I01", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "theroot", "title": "The Root", "category": "Marketing Channels", "subcategory": "News Publishers", "similarity": 0.9719, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "I01", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "wendellpierce", "title": "Wendell Pierce", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Actors", "similarity": 0.9711, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "G03", "A02" ] }, { "handle": "repmaxinewaters", "title": "Maxine Waters", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Politicians", "similarity": 0.9709, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "I01", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "donnabrazile", "title": "Donna Brazile", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Politicians", "similarity": 0.9688, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "G03", "O04" ] }, { "handle": "ava", "title": "Ava DuVernay", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Artists", "similarity": 0.968, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "I01", "G03", "Q02" ] }, { "handle": "attorneycrump", "title": "Ben Crump", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Professionals", "similarity": 0.965, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "Q02", "G03", "I01" ] }, { "handle": "shaunking", "title": "Shaun King", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Activists", "similarity": 0.9632, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "I01", "Q02", "G03" ] }, { "handle": "tayediggs", "title": "Taye Diggs", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Actors", "similarity": 0.9623, "drivers": [ "E02", "Q04", "G03", "I01", "A02" ] } ] }

Full Attention graph /similarity /affinity /demographics available with API key:

https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/v1/attention/similar/mharrisperry

Melissa Harris-Perry

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