Tag Archives: Twitter
Conversation practices and network structure in Twitter – SIGSNA paper at ICWSM12
Our paper Conversation practices and network structure in Twitter has been accepted as poster paper for the upcoming International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM12) that will be held in Dublin in June. We are really happy to be part of the conference of many reasons. On one side ICWSM is an interesting venue where researchers coming both from the computer sciences and from the social sciences have the opportunity to come together presenting their own researches and approaches. As we know from our personal experience that is not an easy dialogue but it is really valuable.
Full StoryUpcoming conferences and activities
After some quite time we can now update the list of the upcoming event and presentations. March will be a busy period with a major conference and two very interesting workshops where we are going to presents the new research lines we’re carrying on this year.
Full StoryWhat 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, [...]
Full Story(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.
