Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media using Topic Models

• Main Authors: ZHAO, Wayne Xin, JIANG, Jing, WENG, Jianshu, HE, Jing, LIM, Ee Peng, YAN, Hongfei, LI, Xiaoming
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Twitter; microblogging; topic modeling; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1375; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2374/viewcontent/Jing2011ComparingTwitterTopic_Models.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Twitter as a new form of social media can potentially contain much useful information, but content analysis on Twitter has not been well studied. In particular, it is not clear whether as an information source Twitter can be simply regarded as a faster news feed that covers mostly the same informati...