The social world of Twitter: Topics, geography, and emotions

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 298-305

  Quercia, Daniele ^a   Capra, Licia ^b   Crowcroft, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MARKETING CAMPAIGN; NETWORK METRICS; OPINION LEADERS; REAL-LIFE NETWORKS; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES; STRUCTURAL HOLES;

USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84878617605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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