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ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment
Twitter is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of short messages on a variety of topics every day. This study uses the context of the German federal electi...
Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sa...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Voices of Vlogging
Vlogs have rapidly evolved from the ’chat from your bedroom’ format to a highly creative form of expression and communication. However, despite the high popularity of vlogging...
Joan-Isaac Biel, Daniel Gatica-Perez
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Longevity in Second Life
User retention is important to the success of online social media, particularly in virtual world settings where users shape one another’s online experience. We study a rich set ...
ChunYuen Teng, Lada A. Adamic
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Faceplant: Impression (Mis)management in Facebook Status Updates
While recent research examined the impressions projected by users of Social Network Sites through their relatively static online profiles, the addition of status updates to Facebo...
Vladimir Barash, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ellen Isaacs,...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
"How Incredibly Awesome!" - Click Here to Read More
We investigate the impact of a discussion snippet’s overall sentiment on a user’s willingness to read more of a discussion. Using sentiment analysis, we constructed positive, ...
Hyung-il Ahn, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, David R. ...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Coping With Noise in a Real-World Weblog Crawler and Retrieval System
In this paper we examine the effects of noise when creating a real-world weblog corpus for information retrieval. We focus on the DiffPost (Lee et al. 2008) approach to noise remo...
James Lanagan, Paul Ferguson, Neil O'Hare, Alan F....
ICWSM
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Social Intellisense: A Task-Embedded Interface to Folksonomies
We present an application for accessing and creating socially constructed sets of information. Users store and retrieve information, such as bits of text, through the use of "...
Scott Counts, Kristie Fisher, Aaron Hoff
ICWSM
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Zeynep Tufekci
ICWSM
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Conversational Shadows: Describing Live Media Events Using Short Messages
Microblogging concurrently with live media events is becoming commonplace. The resulting comment stream represents a parallel, social conversational reflection on the event. Altho...
David A. Shamma, Lyndon Kennedy, Elizabeth F. Chur...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Devils, Angels, and Robots: Tempting Destructive Users in Social Media
Social media sites derive their value by providing a popular and dependable community for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services li...
Kyumin Lee, Brian David Eoff, James Caverlee