Characterization of the twitter @replies network: Are user ties social or topical?

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-70

  Sousa, Daniel ^a   Sarmento, Luís ^a   Rodrigues, Eduarda Mendes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Microblogging; Social network; Topic analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; MICROBLOGGING; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TOPIC ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78651288961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871985.1871996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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