Tag Archives: friendfeed

What if Twitter wasn’t the fastest one…

[Italiano] We have recently done some comparative analysis between Twitter propagation dynamics and FriendFeed propagation dynamics. We chose, as our case study, the news related to the rescue operations of the San Josè mining accident (that left 33 men trapped 700 metres (2,300 ft) below ground for 69 days) [I'm not describing the research now, [...]

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When followers are not enough

[italian version] We have just gathered a brand new datased of FriendFeed data (you can download it in the Data section, it’s named 2010-a dataset ). Since it is considerably larger than our previous database we decided to test few more hypotesis on information propagation in SNSs. One of the key concepts speaking about the [...]

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(Italiano) A proposito di Twitter e della (mancata) conversazione

(Italiano) Recentemente Sysomos ha rilasciato alcuni dati che mostrano come solo il 29% dei Tweet produca effettivamente una reazione (6% Retweet e 23% Replay). A questi dati sono ovviamente seguiti una serie di commenti pronti a mettere in discussione l’aspetto social di Twitter ed a sostenerne una presunta natura Broadcasting.
L’idea alla base di questo ragionamento è che se su Twitter le persone non chiaccherano allora la dimensione social si perde a favore di un’infinita serie di messaggi individuali rivolti alla massa. Di fronte a questo ragionamento è però forse opportuna una riflessione sui dati proposti dalla icerca Sysomos.

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Visualising Italian Friendfeed Network

Recently we’ve posted on Friendfeed a visualisation of Italian Friendfeed users extracted from the data we’ve collected in 2009. Since the map started an interesting debate (you can read it here – in Italian -) we thought to write a short post explaining how the map has been done and what are its limits and [...]

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July RoundUp

July has been a month fully packed of SIGSNA activities. At the beginning we’ve been in Oxford for the Research Methods festival [reported here] and after that we had just a few days at home and we had to fly to Gothenburg for the International Sociological Association Conference (ISA 2010). Due to the high interdisciplinary [...]

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SIGSNA data available

In the Data section you can now download the data. We monitored the activity of Friendfeed from September 6, 2009, 00:00 AM to September 19, 2009, 12:00 PM. The service was monitored at a rate of about 1 to 2 updates every second (depending on network traffic). This is the dataset we are using for [...]

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Language identification and source analysis

Even during Christmas holidays #SIGSNA team was working on our dataset of conversations. After the positive reaction to our first public presentation we’ve decided to improve our dataset before moving any step forward. We worked on two main issues: 1) we tried to improve the performance of our Language Identificatio system and 2) we tried [...]

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First public presentation

We’re happy to announce that Friday we gave the first public presentation of the #SIGSNA project. We presented our paper titled “SOCIAL NETWORK PRACTICES, AN EMPIRICAL DESCRIPTION OF FRIENDFEED” at the conference “Le reti socievoli” [this could be translated "the friendly networks"], hosted by the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. We are very happy about [...]

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