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Classifying latent user attributes in Twitter

by Delip Rao, David Yarowsky, Abhishek Shreevats, Manaswi Gupta - In Proc. of SMUC , 2010
"... Social media outlets such as Twitter have become an important forum for peer interaction. Thus the ability to classify latent user attributes, including gender, age, regional origin, and political orientation solely from Twitter user language or similar highly informal content has important applicat ..."
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Social media outlets such as Twitter have become an important forum for peer interaction. Thus the ability to classify latent user attributes, including gender, age, regional origin, and political orientation solely from Twitter user language or similar highly informal content has important

Want to be retweeted? Large scale analytics on factors impacting retweet in Twitter network

by Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Peter Pirolli, H. Chi - in Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom , 2010
"... Abstract — Retweeting is the key mechanism for information diffusion in Twitter. It emerged as a simple yet powerful way of disseminating information in the Twitter social network. Even though a lot of information is shared in Twitter, little is known yet about how and why certain information spread ..."
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not predict retweetability of a user’s tweet. We believe that this research would inform the design of sensemaking and analytics tools for social media streams. Keywords-Twitter; retweet; tweet; follower; social network; social media; factor analysis I.

Predicting the political alignment of twitter users

by Michael D. Conover, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Ro Flammini - In Proceedings of the IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom , 2011
"... Abstract—The widespread adoption of social media for po-litical communication creates unprecedented opportunities to monitor the opinions of large numbers of politically active individuals in real time. However, without a way to distinguish between users of opposing political alignments, conflicting ..."
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Abstract—The widespread adoption of social media for po-litical communication creates unprecedented opportunities to monitor the opinions of large numbers of politically active individuals in real time. However, without a way to distinguish between users of opposing political alignments

SensePlace2: GeoTwitter analytics support for situational awareness

by Alan M. Maceachren, Anuj Jaiswal, Anthony C. Robinson, Scott Pezanowski, Er Savelyev, Xiao Zhang, Justine Blanford - in ‘Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology , 2011
"... Geographically-grounded situational awareness (SA) is critical to crisis management and is essential in many other decision making domains that range from infectious disease monitoring, through regional planning, to political campaigning. Social media are becoming an important information input to s ..."
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to support situational assessment (to produce awareness) in all domains. Here, we present a geovisual analytics approach to supporting SA for crisis events using one source of social media, Twitter. Specifically, we focus on leveraging explicit and implicit geographic information for tweets, on developing

A Bayesian Graphical Model to Discover Latent Events from Twitter

by Wei Wei , Kenneth Joseph , Wei Lo , Kathleen M Carley
"... Abstract Online social networks like Twitter and Facebook produce an overwhelming amount of information every day. However, research suggests that much of this content focuses on a reasonably sized set of ongoing events or topics that are both temporally and geographically situated. These patterns ..."
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Abstract Online social networks like Twitter and Facebook produce an overwhelming amount of information every day. However, research suggests that much of this content focuses on a reasonably sized set of ongoing events or topics that are both temporally and geographically situated. These patterns

An analysis of topical proximity in the twitter social graph

by Markus Schaal, Barry Smyth - in SocInfo, 2012
"... Abstract. Standard approaches of information retrieval are increas-ingly complemented by social search even when it comes to rational information needs. Twitter, as a popular source of real-time informa-tion, plays an important role in this respect, as both the follower-followee graph and the many r ..."
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Abstract. Standard approaches of information retrieval are increas-ingly complemented by social search even when it comes to rational information needs. Twitter, as a popular source of real-time informa-tion, plays an important role in this respect, as both the follower-followee graph and the many

I Know the Shortened URLs You Clicked on Twitter: Inference Attack using Public Click Analytics and Twitter

by Jonghyuk Song, Sangho Lee, Jong Kim
"... Twitter is a popular social network service for sharing mes-sages among friends. Because Twitter restricts the length of messages, many Twitter users use URL shortening services, such as bit.ly and goo.gl, to share long URLs with friends. Some URL shortening services also provide click analytics of ..."
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Twitter is a popular social network service for sharing mes-sages among friends. Because Twitter restricts the length of messages, many Twitter users use URL shortening services, such as bit.ly and goo.gl, to share long URLs with friends. Some URL shortening services also provide click analytics

Detecting latent user properties in social media

by Delip Rao, David Yarowsky - In Proc. of the NIPS MLSN Workshop , 2010
"... The ability to identify user attributes such as gender, age, regional origin, and political orientation solely from user language in social media such as Twitter or similar highly informal content has important applications in advertising, personalization, and recommendation. This paper includes a n ..."
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The ability to identify user attributes such as gender, age, regional origin, and political orientation solely from user language in social media such as Twitter or similar highly informal content has important applications in advertising, personalization, and recommendation. This paper includes a

Visualising Topical Sentiment in Twitter Streams

by Suvodeep Mazumdar, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Amparo E. Cano
"... Abstract. Advancements in mobile technology and the proliferation of social media platforms have made it possible for individuals to stay constantly connected with friends and family. This has provided new opportunities to the emergency response domain, where the information shared by individuals in ..."
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Abstract. Advancements in mobile technology and the proliferation of social media platforms have made it possible for individuals to stay constantly connected with friends and family. This has provided new opportunities to the emergency response domain, where the information shared by individuals

Pinterest Board Recommendation for Twitter Users

by Xitong Yang, Yuncheng Li, Jiebo Luo
"... Pinboard on Pinterest is an emerging media to engage on-line social media users, on which users post online images for specific topics. Regardless of its significance, there is little previous work specifically to facilitate information discov-ery based on pinboards. This paper proposes a novel pin- ..."
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Pinboard on Pinterest is an emerging media to engage on-line social media users, on which users post online images for specific topics. Regardless of its significance, there is little previous work specifically to facilitate information discov-ery based on pinboards. This paper proposes a novel pin
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