Hip and trendy: Characterizing emerging trends on Twitter

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 902-918

  Naaman, Mor ^a   Becker, Hila ^b   Gravano, Luis ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EMERGING TRENDS; FACEBOOK; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION; LOCAL COMMUNITY; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; RELATED SYSTEMS; SHORT MESSAGE; SOCIAL AWARENESS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

INFORMATION SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 79953844923     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21489     Document Type: Article

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