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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: unfollowing on twitter
We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Priya Govindan, Mor Naaman
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world
Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a few years. They have become not only a new source of information, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide...
Barbara Poblete, Ruth Garcia, Marcelo Mendoza, Ale...
CORR
2010
Springer
152views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Predicting the Future with Social Media
In recent years, social media has become ubiquitous and important for social networking and content sharing. And yet, the content that is generated from these websites remains larg...
Sitaram Asur, Bernardo A. Huberman
ISI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Social media and social reality
Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputer...
William N. Reynolds, Marta S. Weber, Robert M. Far...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Want to be Retweeted? Large Scale Analytics on Factors Impacting Retweet in Twitter Network
Retweeting is the key mechanism for information diffusion in Twitter. It emerged as a simple yet powerful way of disseminating information in the Twitter social network. Even thoug...
Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Peter Pirolli, Ed H. Chi