Unexpected relevance: An empirical study of serendipity in retweets

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 592-601

  Sun, Tao ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a   Mei, Qiaozhu ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; USER ENGAGEMENT; USER EXPERIENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900398375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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