Link Sharing on Twitter during Popular Events: Implications for Social Navigation on Websites

Nizam, Naureen; Watters, Carolyn; Gruzd, Anatoliy

doi:10.1109/hicss.2014.222

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“…They also found that this occurred on both mobile devices and desktop computers, content was structured, and engagement was dependent on the TV broadcast. Other researchers have also investigated the space by looking at conversational trends during live events on twitter [14] and how live backchannel data can help improve the user experience by informing navigation [11]. Fandom discussions on Tumblr appear to be somewhat similar to backchannel discussions, but they occur on a much more varied timeline ranging from 'live' during a broadcast to years later.…”

Section: Social Networking Motivations and Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We also found that nobody has studied Tumblr fandoms before. While other studies have looked into online backchannels of live entertainment events by investigating other microblogging sites such as Twitter [5,11,14], Tumblr fandom blogging has yet to be explored from a design perspective. This is despite the activity's dominance as one of the main types of Tumblr usage.…”

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Hillman

Procyk

Neustaedter

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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A growing trend is the participation in online fandom communities through the support of the blogging platform Tumblr. While past research has investigated backchannels-chatter related to live entertainment on micro-blogging sites such as Twitter-there is a lack of research on the behaviours and motivations of Tumblr users. In our study, we investigate why fandom users chose Tumblr over other social networking sites, their motivations behind participating in fandoms, and how they interact within the Tumblr community. Our findings show that users face many user interface challenges when participating in Tumblr fandoms, especially initially; yet, despite this, Tumblr fandom communities thrive with a common sense of social purpose and exclusivity where users feel they can present a more authentic reflection of themselves to those sharing similar experiences and interests. We describe how this suggests design directions for social networking and blogging sites in order to promote communities of users.

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Hillman

Procyk

Neustaedter

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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“…Link related research investigates link usage properties [26] as well as spam and security issues [7]. [6] studied the characteristics of links shared in Twitter to improve website navigation for large sport events. The study found that 25-47% of all of the tweets analyzed contained links, and the number of links shared was affected by the type of the event and the characteristics of the official website.…”

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“…The limited length of messages causes people to adopt different strategies, from retweets to links to full articles, websites, pictures, and videos, to share much more information than 140 characters could alone. People frequently include links in tweets to share links to sites, articles, videos, and images [6]. [7] found that 25% -29% of tweets posted daily contain links.…”

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A Study of the Relationship Between the Geographic Locations of the User and Participation in Twitter During Different Types of News Events

Ahmed

Watters

2018

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Twitter is one of the most active social networks in news sharing. People report local events sometimes faster than news agencies. During major events, such as earthquakes and presidential elections, people share tweets, retweets, images and links related to the event, creating an overwhelming number of posts. The amount of data generated by social media provides a shared resource for the discovery of information for individuals, organizations and governments, but the large stream of tweets makes tracking interesting posts a challenging task. Understanding user behavior during different contexts provides substantial insight to get the most out of the social media. The objective of this work is to investigate the relationship between user participation, news type and geographic locations of Twitter's users. The results show that financial news tweets have distinct user behavior compared to tweets about political events and tweets about disasters. Tweets about financial events tend to have more original tweets and more links, than tweets about political events, which had larger numbers of retweets. The investigation of the relationship between the style of user's participation and the type of news provides insight for social media management, specifically, for using information diffusion proactively, real time filtering, and locationaware news recommendation systems. We found that there are relationships between the country of the user, the type of news and user tweeting behavior for news related tweets. News type is strongly correlated to users' behavior and was found to have a stronger relationship to users' behavior than geographic location.

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“…There is a growing body of research on hashtags, which elaborate on the relation between specifi c events, concepts, or social groups and on the hashtags used for them (for example, Romero et al 2011 ). Although it has been the subject of a few social navigation-related research projects (for example, Nizam et al 2014 ), the use of hashtags is yet to be explored in much more depth to understand how people behave in the digital realm.…”

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Socio-spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research

Sak

2016

Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research

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Link Sharing on Twitter during Popular Events: Implications for Social Navigation on Websites

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