Two sites, two voices: Linguistic differences between facebook status updates and tweets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8024 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 432-440

  Lin, Han ^a   Qiu, Lin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Facebook; Linguistic feature; LIWC; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

FACEBOOK; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LIWC; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84880741323     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39137-8_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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