How far does a tweet travel? Information brokers in the twitterverse

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Van Liere, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geography; Influence; Information diffusion; Ranking; Social media filter; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHY; INFLUENCE; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; RANKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TWITTER;

DIFFUSION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77956054450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835980.1835986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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