Who will retweet this? Automatically identifying and engaging strangers on twitter to spread information

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 247-256

  Lee, Kyumin ^a   Mahmud, Jalal ^b   Chen, Jilin ^b   Zhou, Michelle ^b   Nichols, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Personality; Retweet; Social Media; Twitter; Willingness

Indexed keywords

PERSONALITY; RETWEET; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; WILLINGNESS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84897799710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2557500.2557502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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