Analyzing user behavior of the micro-blogging website Sina Weibo during hot social events

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 395, Issue , 2014, Pages 340-351

  Guan, Wanqiu ^a   Gao, Haoyu ^b   Yang, Mingmin ^b   Li, Yuan ^a   Ma, Haixin ^c   Qian, Weining ^c   Cao, Zhigang ^b   Yang, Xiaoguang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Demographic characteristics; Hot social events; Micro blogging; Sina Weibo; Social networking service

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; MICRO BLOGGING; SINA-WEIBO; SOCIAL EVENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES;

BLOGS;

EID: 84889889235     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.09.059     Document Type: Article

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