Is it really about me?: Message content in social awareness streams

Mor Naaman; Jeffrey Boase; Chih-Hui Lai

doi:10.1145/1718918.1718953

Is it really about me? Message content in social awareness streams

Mor Naaman^*, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Communication and Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

629 Scopus citations

Abstract

In this work we examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems we call "social awareness streams." We use system data and message content from over 350 Twitter users, applying human coding and quantitative analysis to provide a deeper understanding of the activity of individuals on the Twitter network. In particular, we develop a content-based categorization of the type of messages posted by Twitter users, based on which we examine users' activity. Our analysis shows two common types of user behavior in terms of the content of the posted messages, and exposes differences between users in respect to these activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2010
Pages	189-192
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1718918.1718953
State	Published - 2010
Event	2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2010 - Savannah, GA, United States Duration: 6 Feb 2010 → 10 Feb 2010

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Conference

Conference	2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Savannah, GA
Period	6/02/10 → 10/02/10

Keywords

Communication systems
Social media
Twitter

Access to Document

10.1145/1718918.1718953

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Naaman, M, Boase, J & Lai, C-H 2010, Is it really about me? Message content in social awareness streams. in 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2010. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, pp. 189-192, 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2010, Savannah, GA, United States, 6/02/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1718918.1718953

Is it really about me? Message content in social awareness streams. / Naaman, Mor; Boase, Jeffrey; Lai, Chih-Hui.
2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2010. 2010. p. 189-192 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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