Communities of Tweeple: How Communities Engage with Microblogging When Co-located

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dc.contributor.authorVega, Edgardo Luisen
dc.contributor.committeechairPérez-Quiñones, Manuel A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKavanaugh, Andrea L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHarrison, Steven R.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:36:22Zen
dc.date.adate2011-06-27en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:36:22Zen
dc.date.issued2011-04-22en
dc.date.rdate2011-06-27en
dc.date.sdate2011-05-11en
dc.description.abstractMost of the research done on microblogging services, such as Twitter, has focused on how the individual communicates with their community at a micro and macro level; less research has been done on how the community affects the individual. We present in this thesis some ideas about this phenomenon. We do this by collecting data of Twitter users at a conference. We collected 21,150 tweets from approximately 400 users during a five week period and additionally collected survey data from a small subset of the tweeters. By observing users of Twitter, before, during, after a specific event we discovered a pattern in postings. Specifically, we found that tweets increased the week of the conference and that by the end of the conference the network was strong. These findings lead us to conclude that collocation of communities, like conferences, has a substantial effect on online microblogging behaviors.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05112011-222646en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112011-222646/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32605en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartVega_EL_T_2011.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSocialen
dc.subjectTwitteren
dc.subjectInformationen
dc.subjectMicrobloggingen
dc.subjectConferencesen
dc.subjectNetworken
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectGraphen
dc.subjectCommunityen
dc.subjectInfluenceen
dc.titleCommunities of Tweeple: How Communities Engage with Microblogging When Co-locateden
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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