A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICWSM
• Authors: Meenakshi Nagarajan, Hemant J. Purohit, Amit P. Sheth
• Keywords: General Tweet Properties, ICWSM 2010, Internet Technology, Retweet Behavior, Tweeted/viral Content Pieces