Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network
| Autor: | Juhi Kulshrestha, Farshad Kooti, Ashkan Nikravesh, Krishna Gummadi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 6:202-209 |
| ISSN: | 2334-0770 2162-3449 |
| DOI: | 10.1609/icwsm.v6i1.14280 |
| Popis: | Geography plays an important role in shaping societal interactions in the offline world. However, as more and more social interactions occur online via social net- working sites like Twitter and Facebook, users can in- teract with others unconstrained by their geolocations, raising the question: does offline geography still matter in online social networks? In this paper, we attempt to address this question by dissecting the Twitter so- cial network based on users’ geolocations and investi- gating how users’ geolocation impacts their participa- tion in Twitter, including their connections to others and the information they exchange with them. Our in-depth analysis reveals that geography continues to have a sig- nificant impact on user interactions in the Twitter social network. The influence of geography could be poten- tially explained by the shared national, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds of users from the same geographic neighborhood. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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