2007 WhyWeTwitterUnderstandingMicrob

• (Java et al., 2007) ⇒ Akshay Java, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin, and Belle Tseng. (2007). “Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities.” In: Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis. doi:10.1145/1348549.1348556

Subject Headings: Microblogging, Twitter.

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Author Keywords

• microblogging; social media; social network analysis; user intent

Abstract

Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper, we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter's social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a community level and show how users with similar intentions connect with each other.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2007 WhyWeTwitterUnderstandingMicrob	Akshay Java Xiaodan Song Tim Finin Belle Tseng			Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities				10.1145/1348549.1348556		2007