Twitter and the development of an audience: Those who stay on topic thrive!

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1515-1518

  Wang, Yi Chia ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Community startup; Critical mass; Natural language analysis; Online communities; Social networking sites; Topical focus

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL MASS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEOUS GROUP; LONGITUDINAL DATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS; NETWORKING STRUCTURE; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84862059014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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