On Modeling Virality of Twitter Content

• Main Authors: HOANG, Tuan Anh, LIM, Ee Peng, ACHANANUPARP, Palakorn, JIANG, Jing, ZHU, Feida
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: General Elections; Microblogging; Quantitative indices; Real time; Short message; Singapore; Asian Studies; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1440; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2439/viewcontent/C02___On_Modeling_Virality_of_Twitter_Content__ICADL2011_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Twitter is a popular microblogging site where users can easily use mobile phones or desktop machines to generate short messages to be shared with others in realtime. Twitter has seen heavy usage in many recent international events including Japan earthquake, Iran election, etc. In such events, many...