Paper Info
Title
What does software engineering community microblog about?
Abstract
Microblogging is a new trend to communicate and to disseminate information. One microblog post could potentially reach millions of users. Millions of microblogs are generated on a daily basis on popular sites such as Twitter. The popularity of microblogging among programmers, software engineers, and software users has also led to their use of microblogs to communicate software engineering issues apart from using emails and other traditional communication channels. Understanding how millions of users use microblogs in software engineering related activities would shed light on ways we could leverage the fast evolving microblogging content to aid software development efforts. In this work, we perform a preliminary study on what the software engineering community microblogs about. We analyze the content of microblogs from Twitter and categorize the types of microblogs that are posted. We investigate the relative popularity of each category of microblogs. We also investigate what kinds of microblogs are diffused more widely in the Twitter network via the \"retweet\" feature. Our experiments show that microblogs commonly contain job openings, news, questions and answers, or links to download new tools and code. We find that microblogs concerning real-world events are more widely diffused in the Twitter network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/MSR.2012.6224287
MSR
Keywords
Field
DocType
information dissemination,social networking (online),software engineering,Twitter network,communication channels,emails,information dissemination,microblogging content,software development,software engineering community microblog,software engineering related activities,software engineers,software users
Data mining,Software analytics,Computer science,Popularity,Dissemination,Software maintenance,Software development,World Wide Web,Social media,Software engineering,Microblogging,Software as a service,Software quality
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2160-1852
978-1-4673-1760-3
28
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.43
14
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuan Tian149318.90
Palakorn Achananuparp230223.16
Ibrahim Nelman Lubis3422.13
David Lo45346259.67
Ee-Peng Lim55889754.17