When countries become the talking point in microblogs: Study on country hashtags in Twitter

• Main Authors: Sesagiri Raamkumar, Aravind, Pang, Natalie, Foo, Schubert
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Twitter; Social Media; Hashtags; Country Hashtags; Twitter Hashtags; Hashtag Studies; Microblogs
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82016; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39764
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Hashtags are placeholder features for capturing the underlying themes in microblog posts. Prior studies have investigated the conversation dynamics, interplay with other media platforms and communication patterns between users for specific event-based hashtags. Commonplace hashtags have been largely...