Can twitter replace newswire for breaking news?

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 713-716

  Petrović, Saša ^a   Osborne, Miles ^a   McCreadie, Richard ^b   MacDonald, Craig ^b   Ounis, Iadh ^b   Shrimpton, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG TAIL; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; NEWS REPORTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84898066394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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