Offline versus online: A meaningful categorization of ties for retweets

• Main Authors: NATALI, Felicia, ZHU, Feida
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Offline ties; Online ties; Retweet; Twitter; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4868; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5871/viewcontent/OfflineVersusOnline_2018_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With the recent proliferation of news being shared through online social networks, it is crucial to determine how news is spread and what drives people to share certain stories. In this paper, we focus on the social networking site Twitter and analyse user’s retweets. We study retweeting patterns between offline and online friends, particularly, how tweet novelty and tweet topic differ between tweets retweeted by offline friends and those retweeted by online friends.