Unfolding the event landscape on twitter: Classification and exploration of user categories

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 241-244

  De Choudhury, Munmun ^a   Diakopoulos, Nicholas ^b   Naaman, Mor ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

events; social media; twitter; user classification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS; BLOGGERS; CONTENT CONSUMPTION; EVENTS; INFORMATION PRODUCTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; USER CLASSIFICATION; USER TYPE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84858250319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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