Spreading One’s Tweets: How Can Journalists Gain Attention for their Tweeted News?

Modeling and Predicting News Consumption on Twitter

“…In addition, we collected all the retweets and mentions received by these 200 Twitter accounts. Previous work has shown that the use of Twitter for news in Ireland is broadly similar to that found in other western countries (e.g., the UK and France [21]). The data collection spans a period of four months from August 10th to December 10th, 2017.…”

“…al [13,14], using social, contextual, and temporal features of Twitter users who share news stories, found that the freshness of a news story is one of the most important factors in predicting its page views. In our previous works [21,22], we explored whether Twitter users engage with news differently depending on the news category (e.g., sports vs. politics), and found that what attracts people's attention differs considerable. For example, Irish audiences tend to share sports news-tweets when these contain mentions (i.e., @user), and the source is a well known journalist.…”

“…Finally, it should also be noted that the way users interact with the news, is known to vary by news category. For example, Irish Twitter users consuming sports news engage more with news-tweets that contain mentions, while those who engage with science and technology news are influenced more by the temporal arrival of the tweets (i.e., date and time of publication) [22].…”

Tabloids in the Era of Social Media? Understanding the Production and Consumption of Clickbaits in Twitter

“…The authors also designed approaches to mitigate this gender bias. By analyzing the sharing behaviors of network gatekeepers, Orellana-Rodriguez et al [37] proposed a set of guidelines to maximize engagement with the shared news items. Complementary to all these prior works, in our present work, we attempt to distinguish between the network gatekeepers who consume and share clickbait and traditional news stories.…”

LOOM: Showing the Dynamics of Power Laws in Twitter Data

“…Nowadays Twitter has a worldwide reach with 319 million users sending approximately 500 million tweets per day. Twitter has been branded as the social network for news dissemination [6]; indeed, many journalists and news organizations now expend considerable effort tweeting their news articles, in ways to attract maximal attention and engagement [7,8]. In attracting attention to one's tweeted news, the use of the right hashtag for a story has become critical [9]; if a journalist does not use the most-commonlyused hashtag for the story then their news is less likely to reach a target audience [10,11].…”