Speaker:Xu Bo Time:2011/9/7
Questions How are people connected on Twitter? Who are the most influential people? What do people talk about? How does information diffuse via retweet?
Question 1 How are people connected on Twitter? # of followings/followers Followers vs. Tweets Reciprocity Degree of Separation Homophily
Followers VS. Twitters
Followers VS. Twitters
Homophily
Question 2 Who are the most influential people? Followers PageRank Retweets
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Question 3 What do people talk about?
Singleton, Reply, Mention, Retweet
We consider a trending topic inactive if there is no tweet on the topic for 24 hours (a)73% topics have a single active period; 15% have 2; 5% have 3 (b)31% are 1 day long; only 7% longer than 10 days.
On the number of tweets and their times
Question 4 How does information diffuse via retweet?
Retweet Trees We are now interested in how far and deep retweets travel in Twitter