Who is retweeting the tweeters? Modeling, originating, and promoting behaviors in the twitter network

• Main Authors: PALAKORN, Achananuparp, LIM, Ee Peng, JIANG, Jing, HOANG, Tuan Anh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Twitter; Retweet; Weak retweet; Behavior modeling; Originating behavior; Promoting behavior; Information propagation; Event detection; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1695; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2694/viewcontent/achananuparp_tmis_2012.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Real-time microblogging systems such as Twitter offer users an easy and lightweight means to exchange information. Instead of writing formal and lengthy messages, microbloggers prefer to frequently broadcast several short messages to be read by other users. Only when messages are interesting, are th...