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ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Comparing Information Diffusion Structure in Weblogs and Microblogs
To better understand and characterize the emerging social medium of microblogging we conducted a comparison between Twitter and a weblog network for their respective information d...
Jiang Yang, Scott Counts
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
In this work we examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems we call...
Mor Naaman, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai
IEEEVAST
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Diamonds in the rough: Social media visual analytics for journalistic inquiry
Journalists increasingly turn to social media sources such as Facebook or Twitter to support their coverage of various news events. For large-scale events such as televised debate...
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Mor Naaman, Funda Kivran-Swa...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Information credibility on twitter
We analyze the information credibility of news propagated through Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Previous research has shown that most of the messages posted on Twitter...
Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza, Barbara Poblete
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Computing political preference among twitter followers
Through anecdotal evidence and a variety of methods, claims are constantly being made about the bias of media outlets. As many of those outlets create online personas, we seek to ...
Jennifer Golbeck, Derek L. Hansen