Twitter

Palanteer: A search engine for community generated microblogging data

Unlike standard web search, people search microblog messages to look for temporally relevant information. Due to the recency nature of microblogs and a massive amount of data generated by users of popular services such as Twitter, it is challenging …

Observatory of Trends in Software Related Microblogs

Microblogging has recently become a popular means to disseminate information among millions of people. Interestingly, software developers also use microblog to communicate with one another. Different from traditional media, microblog users tend to …

Follow Link Seeking Strategy: A Pattern Based Approach

The way Twitter and other microblogging networks work is to have users create follow links among one another, and create short messages to their followers. Most of the time, the creation of follow links to other users does not require approval from …

Influentials, novelty, and social contagion. The viral power of average friends, close communities, and old news

What is the effect of (1) popular individuals, and (2) community structures on the retransmission of socially contagious behavior? We examine a community of Twitter users over a five month period, operationalizing social contagion as 'retweeting', …

Who is Retweeting the Tweeters? Modeling Originating and Promoting Behaviors in the Twitter Network

Real-time microblogging systems such as Twitter offer users an easy and lightweight means to exchange information. Instead of writing formal and lengthy messages, microbloggers prefer to frequently broadcast several short messages to be read by other …