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ICWSM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace
Microblogging has recently generated a lot of research interest. Yet very little is known about how corporate employees use microblogging tools. This study examined microblogging ...
Kate Ehrlich, N. Sadat Shami
ICWSM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks
We propose an approach to determine the ethnic breakdown of a population based solely on people's names and data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. We demonstrate that our a...
Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cam...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Characterizing Microblogs with Topic Models
As microblogging grows in popularity, services like Twitter are coming to support information gathering needs above and beyond their traditional roles as social networks. But most...
Daniel Ramage, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
ICWSM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter
We present TweetMotif, an exploratory search application for Twitter. Unlike traditional approaches to information retrieval, which present a simple list of messages, TweetMotif g...
Brendan O'Connor, Michel Krieger, David Ahn
ICWSM
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Longevity in Second Life
User retention is important to the success of online social media, particularly in virtual world settings where users shape one another’s online experience. We study a rich set ...
ChunYuen Teng, Lada A. Adamic