Title
Discover breaking events with popular hashtags in twitter
Abstract
In this paper, we utilize tags in Twitter (the hashtags) as an indicator of events. We first study the properties of hashtags for event detection. Based on several observations, we proposed three attributes of hashtags, including (1) instability for temporal analysis, (2) Twitter meme possibility to distinguish social events from virtual topics or memes, and (3) authorship entropy for mining the most contributed authors. Based on these attributes, breaking events are discovered with hashtags, which cover a wide range of social events among different languages in the real world.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2396761.2398519
CIKM
Keywords
Field
DocType
popular hashtags,twitter meme possibility,social event,real world,event detection,virtual topic,authorship entropy,temporal analysis,wide range,different language,social media
Data mining,World Wide Web,Social media,Computer science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
36
1.04
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anqi Cui1997.56
Min Zhang21658134.93
Yiqun Liu31592136.51
Shaoping Ma41544126.00
Kuo Zhang531120.43