NodeXL has new updates to its importers for Twitter users and lists. We have released an updated version of NodeXL that simplifies and merges the previously separate User and List importers. The new, streamlined importer treats an individual user as a list of one. Lists can be defined by pointing to an existing Twitter List or simply entering a list of delimited user names into the text box. The updated importer now collects many more tweets per person and parses these messages to generate reply and mention edges. You can now define a group of Twitter users and find out how much they reply and mention one another. You can even pull in the followers of each person, to see if they reply or mention people they also follow. But ever since June 11, 2013 , Twitter has made access to the “follows” edge data very difficult (its just very slow).…