Who is retweeting the tweeters? Modeling, originating, and promoting behaviors in the twitter network

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Achananuparp, Palakorn ^a   Lim, Ee Peng ^a   Jiang, Jing ^a   Hoang, Tuan Anh ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Behavior modeling; Event detection; Information propagation; Originating behavior; Promoting behavior; Retweet; Twitter; Weak retweet

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR MODELING; EVENT DETECTION; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; ORIGINATING BEHAVIOR; PROMOTING BEHAVIOR; RETWEET; TWITTER; WEAK RETWEET;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84869421989     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2361256.2361258     Document Type: Article

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