ICWSM 2012 Paper accepted!
Media attention, traditional social networks responsible for Twitter growth: MIT
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MIT research: Traditional social networks fueled Twitter’s spread
Contrary to the present way in which Twitter is flourishing, the social networking and microblogging website’s humble beginnings relied on media attention and traditional social networks that were based on socioeconomic similarity and geographic proximity in the U.S. http://mashable.com/2011/12/21/twitter-mit/Poster Presentation at Social Informatics International Conference 2011
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Revolution 2.0 in Tunisia and Egypt: Reactions and Sentiments in the Online World
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New paper, Media Landscape in Twitter, featured in BusinessWeek
A new paper from the lab, Media Landscape in Twitter, was accepted at the AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ISWSM) 2011. The paper is introduced at GigaOm.com with a title “How Twitter Could Unleash World Peace”, which is also featured in BusinessWeek.
The first author, Jisun An, was a visiting student in our lab from Dec. 2010 to Feb. 2011. Meeyoung Cha is the corresponding author of the paper.
“In a study to be presented at a conference in July, a team ofresearchers from the University of Cambridge and Korea’s KAIST show
how Twitter can provide users greater access to different political
viewpoints and media sources than they might otherwise get.” http://gigaom.com/2011/04/11/how-twitter-could-bring-about-world-peace/