Global connectivity and multilingualsin the twitter network

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 833-842

  Hale, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross language; Information Diffusion; Information Discovery; Micro blogs; Multilingual; Social Media; Social Network Analysis

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CROSS LANGUAGES; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION DISCOVERY; MICRO-BLOGS; MULTILINGUAL; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900387002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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