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U.S. State Education Agencies’ Use of Twitter
SAGE Open, 2016 This study examined how Twitter was used by all U.S. state education agencies (SEAs) for public engagement in education. Drawing on the ecological model of communication, this study analyzed the latest 71,913 tweets from 40 SEAs that had official Twitter
Yinying Wang
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Discovery, Retrieval, and Analysis of 'Star Wars' botnet in Twitter [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 It is known that many Twitter users are bots, which are accounts controlled and sometimes created by computers. Twitter bots can send spam tweets, manipulate public opinion and be used for online fraud. Here we report the discovery, retrieval, and analysis of the `Star Wars' botnet in Twitter, which consists of more than 350,000 bots tweeting random ...
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PLOS ONE, 2017 With over 300 million active users, Twitter is among the largest online news and social networking services in existence today. Open access to information on Twitter makes it a valuable source of data for research on social interactions, sentiment analysis, content diffusion, link prediction, and the dynamics behind human collective behaviour in ...
Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić +2 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract In today's digital age, misinformation propagates rapidly through digital channels, blurring the lines between truth and fiction, and challenging the foundations of trust in information sources. Although affecting all spheres of life, misinformation poses a significant threat to workers highlighting a critical intersection between ...
Ashwani Malhotra +4 more
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Where are my followers? Understanding the Locality Effect in Twitter [PDF]
, 2011 Twitter is one of the most used applications in the current Internet with more than 200M accounts created so far. As other large-scale systems Twitter can obtain enefit by exploiting the Locality effect existing among its users.
Cuevas, Angel +3 more
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Finding Street Gang Members on Twitter
, 2016 Most street gang members use Twitter to intimidate others, to present outrageous images and statements to the world, and to share recent illegal activities. Their tweets may thus be useful to law enforcement agencies to discover clues about recent crimes
Balasuriya, Lakshika +3 more
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Data sources used in bibliometrics 1978–2022: From proprietary databases to the great wide open
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Traditionally, the bibliometric community has relied heavily on secondary data sources, most prominently the Science Citation Index. By analyzing three key journals, we detected trends in the data sources used over a 45‐year period (1978–2022).
Camilla Hertil Lindelöw +2 more
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Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social isolation has detrimental effects on wellbeing. While isolation can occur at any age, its prevalence has been found to increase in older adulthood. Populations with social functioning differences, such as autistic people, have also been found to be at particular risk of isolation across the lifespan, including in older age.
Gloria Hei Man Lo +3 more
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Your Actions Tell Where You Are: Uncovering Twitter Users in a Metropolitan Area
, 2015 Twitter is an extremely popular social networking platform. Most Twitter users do not disclose their locations due to privacy concerns. Although inferring the location of an individual Twitter user has been extensively studied, it is still missing to ...
Sun, Jingchao +3 more
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