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Deep Twitter diving: exploring topical groups in microblogs at scale

Authors:

Parantapa Bhattacharya,

Saptarshi Ghosh,

Juhi Kulshrestha,

Mainack Mondal,

Muhammad Bilal Zafar,

Krishna P. GummadiAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '14: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing

Pages 197 - 210

https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531636

Published: 15 February 2014 Publication History

Abstract

We present a semantic methodology to identify topical groups in Twitter on a large number of topics, each consisting of users who are experts on or interested in a specific topic. Early studies investigating the nature of Twitter suggest that it is a social media platform consisting of a relatively small section of elite users, producing information on a few popular topics such as media, politics, and music, and the general population consuming it. We show that this characterization ignores a rich set of highly specialized topics, ranging from geology, neurology, to astrophysics and karate - each being discussed by their own topical groups. We present a detailed characterization of these topical groups based on their network structures and tweeting behaviors. Analyzing these groups on the backdrop of the common identity and bond theory in social sciences shows that these groups exhibit characteristics of topical-identity based groups, rather than social-bond based ones.

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