Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network twitter

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Bryden, John ^a   Funk, Sebastian ^b,c   Jansen, Vincent A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DETECTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; HUMAN LANGUAGE; MESSAGING SERVICES; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; USER COMMUNICATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84892176848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds15     Document Type: Article

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