Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community Export

@inproceedings{ISI:000265403000007, abstract = {{Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. We present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of the social network in Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging systems. We find that people use microblogging primarily to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. We present a taxonomy characterizing the the underlying intentions users have in making microblogging posts. By aggregating the apparent intentions of users in implicit communities extracted from the data, we show that users with similar intentions connect with each other.}}, author = {Java, Akshay and Song, Xiaodan and Finin, Tim and Tseng, Belle}, booktitle = {{ADVANCES IN WEB MINING AND WEB USAGE ANALYSIS}}, citeulike-article-id = {5790745}, comment = {{9th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web/1st International Workshop on Social Networks Analysis, San Jose, CA, AUG 12-15, 2007}}, editor = {{Zhang, H and Spiliopoulou, M and Mobasher, B and Giles, CL and McCallum, A and Nasraoui, O and Srivastava, J and Yen, J}}, keywords = {microblogging, social-networks-sites}, posted-at = {2009-09-16 09:27:18}, priority = {2}, series = {{LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE}}, title = {{Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community}}, volume = {{5439}}, year = {{2009}} }

TY - CONF ID - ISI:000265403000007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5790745 N2 - {Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. We present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of the social network in Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging systems. We find that people use microblogging primarily to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. We present a taxonomy characterizing the the underlying intentions users have in making microblogging posts. By aggregating the apparent intentions of users in implicit communities extracted from the data, we show that users with similar intentions connect with each other.} SE - {LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE} TI - {Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community} VL - {5439} T2 - {ADVANCES IN WEB MINING AND WEB USAGE ANALYSIS} KW - microblogging KW - social-networks-sites N1 - {9th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web/1st International Workshop on Social Networks Analysis, San Jose, CA, AUG 12-15, 2007} AU - Java, Akshay AU - Song, Xiaodan AU - Finin, Tim AU - Tseng, Belle A2 - Zhang, H and Spiliopoulou, M and Mobasher, B and Giles, CL and McCallum, A and Nasraoui, O and Srivastava, J and Yen, J PY - {2009}/// ER -