Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities Export

@inproceedings{java:twitter, abstract = {Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper, we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter's social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a community level and show how users with similar intentions connect with each other.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Java, Akshay and Song, Xiaodan and Finin, Tim and Tseng, Belle}, booktitle = {WebKDD/SNA-KDD '07: Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis}, citeulike-article-id = {2580227}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1348549.1348556}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1348549.1348556}, doi = {10.1145/1348549.1348556}, isbn = {978-1-59593-848-0}, keywords = {community, microblogging, opw, social-networks, twitter}, location = {San Jose, California}, pages = {56--65}, posted-at = {2009-03-29 13:32:37}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1348549.1348556}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - java:twitter L3 - citeulike-article-id:2580227 N2 - Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper, we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter's social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a community level and show how users with similar intentions connect with each other. CY - San Jose, California SN - 978-1-59593-848-0 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 65 TI - Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities PB - ACM T2 - WebKDD/SNA-KDD '07: Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis SP - 56 KW - community KW - microblogging KW - opw KW - social-networks KW - twitter AU - Java, Akshay AU - Song, Xiaodan AU - Finin, Tim AU - Tseng, Belle PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1348549.1348556 ER -