Global connectivity and multilinguals in the twitter network

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Abstract:: This article analyzes the global connectivity of the Twitter retweet and mentions network and the role of multilingual users engaging with content in multiple languages. The network is heavily structured by language with most mentions and retweets directed to users writing in the same language. Users writing in multiple languages are more active, authoring more tweets than monolingual users. These multilingual users play an important bridging role in the global connectivity of the network. Th...
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Institution:

University of Oxford

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SSD

Department:

Oxford Internet Institute

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Author

Publisher:: Association for Computing Machinery Publisher's website
Host title:: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Journal:: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 Journal website
Pages:: 833-842
Publication date:: 2014-08-01
Acceptance date:: 2014-01-13
DOI:: 10.1145/2556288.2557203
ISBN:: 9781450324731

Keywords:: Social Network Analysis

Multilingual

Information Discovery

Information Diffusion

Cross-language

Micro-blogs

Social Media
Pubs id:: pubs:466611
UUID:: uuid:25844986-c78d-4eaa-9241-06b7cfc97088
Local pid:: pubs:466611
Source identifiers:: 466611
Deposit date:: 2016-03-19

Copyright holder:: Scott A. Hale
Notes:: © Scott A. Hale 2014. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CHI 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557203

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