Microblogging sites allow users to post short messages online, offering a reliable way to communicate and to spread information quickly and efficiently; moreover, they can host complex conversational activities. The objectives of this paper are to model how breaking news circulate in a microblogging network, to identify relevant patterns of news propagation and to increase our understanding of the underlying sociological motivations. This study has been conducted on a real social database collected from a well known microblogging site by observing the reactions of its users to a relevant public event.
Titolo: | Friendfeed breaking news: Death of a public figure |
Autore/i: | MAGNANI, MATTEO; MONTESI, DANILO; L. Rossi |
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Anno: | 2010 |
Titolo del libro: | IEEE SocialCom - International Symposium on Social Computing Application |
Pagina iniziale: | 528 |
Pagina finale: | 533 |
Abstract: | Microblogging sites allow users to post short messages online, offering a reliable way to communicate and to spread information quickly and efficiently; moreover, they can host complex conversational activities. The objectives of this paper are to model how breaking news circulate in a microblogging network, to identify relevant patterns of news propagation and to increase our understanding of the underlying sociological motivations. This study has been conducted on a real social database collected from a well known microblogging site by observing the reactions of its users to a relevant public event. |
Data prodotto definitivo in UGOV: | 20-feb-2011 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno |
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