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ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Who is tweeting on Twitter: human, bot, or cyborg?
Twitter is a new web application playing dual roles of online social networking and micro-blogging. Users communicate with each other by publishing text-based posts. The popularit...
Zi Chu, Steven Gianvecchio, Haining Wang, Sushil J...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Between conjecture and memento: shaping a collective emotional perception of the future
Abstract Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A varieg...
Alberto Pepe, Johan Bollen
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Twitter, a microblogging service less than three years old, commands more than 41 million users as of July 2009 and is growing fast. Twitter users tweet about any topic within the...
Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue B. M...
CORR
2010
Springer
128views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
TAGME: on-the-fly annotation of short text fragments (by Wikipedia entities)
We designed and implemented Tagme, a system that is able to efficiently and judiciously augment a plain-text with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia pages. The specialty of Tagme w...
Paolo Ferragina, Ugo Scaiella
ICWSM
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy
Directed links in social media could represent anything from intimate friendships to common interests, or even a passion for breaking news or celebrity gossip. Such directed links...
Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabrício Benev...