What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?

• Main Authors: KWAK, Haewoon, LEE, Changhyun, PARK, Hosung: MOON
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Twitter; Online social network; Reciprocity; Homophily; Degree of separation; Retweet; Information diffusion; Influential; PageRank; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6101; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7104/viewcontent/1772690.1772751.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Twitter, a microblogging service less than three years old, commands more than 41 million users as of July 2009 and is growing fast. Twitter users tweet about any topic within the 140-character limit and follow others to receive their tweets. The goal of this paper is to study the topological charac...