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  • Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities.
    • Authors: Akshay Java, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin, and Belle Tseng.
    • Date: August 12, 2007.
    • Abstract: Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users can describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Twitter, a popular microblogging tool has seen a lot of growth since it launched in October, 2006. In this paper, we present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter’s social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a community level and show how users with similar intentions connect with each other.
  • Twitter Tweets for Higher Education.
    • Author: Alan A. Lew.
    • Date: August 19, 2007.
    • Abstract: Blog post on my Web 2.0 Teaching Tools site about using Twitter in education, with a focus on higher education. Includes links to other websites that discuss Twitter's uses in education.

 

  • Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
    • Authors: Bernado A Huberman, Daniel M Romero and Fang Wu
    • Date: December 5, 2008
    • Abstract: Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the declared set of friends and followers.

Comments (4)

Anna Morton said

at 6:25 pm on Jan 21, 2009

trialling the use of Yammer between campuses http://www.yammer.com

Adam Bermingham said

at 3:54 pm on Mar 19, 2009

Hi. For those interested in Twitter usage patterns, I'm conducting a twitter user survey for my PhD thesis at Dublin City University:

http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=9faf41ce-c4ce-4f3e-a551-976a272a7dec

I'll be posting analysis of results via @cheesemonger in due course. Feel free to tweet to your followers as we have a long way to go to reach our target number of respondents!

FilipeAlvesFerreira said

at 10:38 pm on Mar 29, 2009

Hi. Why not going to a target creating your own WOC-UP-YOU sharing your copyrights in public collaboration mode ?
I'm proposing that at my first WOC-UP-YOU and I would like to put it here on pbwiki as Twitter add.
http://woc-up-you.ning.com/
http://woc-up-you.ning.com/profile/FilipeAlvesFerreira
Regards/Filipe27



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