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Abstract | ||
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Twitter, Facebook, and other related systems that we call social awareness streams are rapidly changing the information and communication dynamics of our society. These systems, where hundreds of millions of users share short messages in real time, expose the aggregate interests and attention of global and local communities. In particular, emerging temporal trends in these systems, especially those related to a single geographic area, are a significant and revealing source of information for, and about, a local community. This study makes two essential contributions for interpreting emerging temporal trends in these information systems. First, based on a large dataset of Twitter messages from one geographic area, we develop a taxonomy of the trends present in the data. Second, we identify important dimensions according to which trends can be categorized, as well as the key distinguishing features of trends that can be derived from their associated messages. We quantitatively examine the computed features for different categories of trends, and establish that significant differences can be detected across categories. Our study advances the understanding of trends on Twitter and other social awareness streams, which will enable powerful applications and activities, including user-driven real-time information services for local communities. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1002/asi.21489 | JASIST |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
significant difference,local community,geographic area,user-driven real-time information service,information system,social awareness stream,twitter message,temporal trend,single geographic area,related system,classification,knowledge discovery | Local community,Data science,Information system,Data mining,Process communication,World Wide Web,Computer science,Social consciousness,Knowledge extraction | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
62 | 5 | 1532-2882 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
87 | 4.05 | 47 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mor Naaman | 1 | 4783 | 318.39 |
| Hila Becker | 2 | 717 | 30.57 |
| L. Gravano | 3 | 5668 | 855.47 |