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A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices

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Meenakshi Nagarajan,Hemant Purohit,Amit Sheth

Wright State University,Wright State University,Wright State University


Proceedings:

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 4

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

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Poster Papers

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Abstract:

This work contributes to the study of retweet behavior on Twitter surrounding real-world events. We analyze over a million tweets pertaining to three events, present general tweet properties in such topical datasets and qualitatively analyze the properties of the retweet behavior surrounding the most tweeted/viral content pieces. Findings include a clear relationship between sparse/dense retweet patterns and the content and type of a tweet itself; suggesting the need to study content properties in link-based diffusion models.

DOI:

10.1609/icwsm.v4i1.14051


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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media