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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Differences in the mechanics of information diffusion across topics: idioms, political hashtags, and complex contagion on twitte
There is a widespread intuitive sense that different kinds of information spread differently on-line, but it has been difficult to evaluate this question quantitatively since it ...
Daniel M. Romero, Brendan Meeder, Jon M. Kleinberg
CORR
2008
Springer
142views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, soc...
Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, Fang Wu
WSDM
2010
ACM
166views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...