Twitter, Facebook, and other related systems that we call social awareness streams are
rapidly changing the information and communication dynamics of our society. These …

In this work, we explore the types of triggers that spark trends on Twitter, introducing a
typology with the following 4 types: news, ongoing events, memes, and commemoratives …

Twitter as medium and message Page 1 18 coMMunications of the acM | MArch 2011 | vol. 54
| no. 3 news TWitteR geneRateS a lot of noise. One hundred sixty million users send upward …

Twitter has undoubtedly caught the attention of both the general public, and academia as a
microblogging service worthy of study and attention. Twitter has several features that sets it …

Debate is open as to whether social media communities resemble real-life communities, and
to what extent. We contribute to this discussion by testing whether established sociological …

Fully 70% of US adult Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news
events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.

As an integral component of public discourse, Twitter is among the main data sources for
scholarship in this area. However, there is much that scholars do not know about the basic …

Scholarly research into the uses of social media has become a major area of growth in
recent years, as the adoption of social media for public communication itself has continued …

Because of its willingness to share data with academia and industry, Twitter has been the
primary social media platform for scientific research as well as for consulting businesses and …

The microblogging site Twitter is now one of the most popular Web destinations. Due to the
relative ease of data access, there has been significant research based on Twitter data …