Structures of broken ties: Exploring unfollow behavior on Twitter

• Main Authors: XU, Bo, HUANG, Yun, KWAK, Haewoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Unfollow relations; Tie dissolution; Twitter; Actor-oriented modeling (SIENA); Snowball sampling.; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6097; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7100/viewcontent/Structures_of_Broken_Ties.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study investigates unfollow behavior in Twitter, i.e. people removing others from their Twitter following lists. Considering the interdependency and dynamics of unfollow decisions, we use actor-oriented modeling (SIENA) to examine the impacts of reciprocity, status, embeddedness, homophily, and...