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 …

Social media data is widely analyzed in computational social science. Twitter, one of the
largest social media platforms, is used for research, journalism, business, and government …

One of the main obstacles, hampering method development and comparative evaluation of
named entity recognition in social media, is the lack of a sizeable, diverse, high quality …

Social media has generated a wealth of data. Billions of people tweet, sharing, post, and
discuss everyday. Due to this increased activity, social media platforms provide new …

Previous literature has considered the relevance of Twitter to journalism, for example as a
tool for reporters to collect information and for organizations to disseminate news to the …

The rising popularity of social media posts, most notably Twitter posts, as a data source for
social science research poses significant problems with regard to access to representative …

A comprehensive understanding of data quality is the cornerstone of measurement studies
in social media research. This paper presents in-depth measurements on the effects of …

Public health and social science increasingly use Twitter for behavioral and marketing
surveillance. However, few studies provide sufficient detail about Twitter data collection to …

Social media affects not only the way we consume news, but also the way news is produced,
including by traditional media outlets. In this paper, we study the propagation of information …

We examine the impact of a new tool for digital repression—a daily tax on social media use
in Uganda. Using a synthetic control framework and exploiting the exogenous timing of the …