Who watches (and shares) what on YouTube? And when? Using Twitter to understand YouTube viewership

WSDM 2014 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 593-602

  Abisheva, Adiya ^a   Garimella, Venkata Rama Kiran ^b   Garcia, David ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

audience analysis; twitter; video recommendation; youtube

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WATCHES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUDIENCE ANALYSIS; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; VIDEO CONTENTS; VIDEO RECOMMENDATION; VIDEO SHARING; YOUTUBE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906861985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556195.2566588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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