Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community

Authors:
Akshay Java;Xiaodan Song;Tim Finin;Belle Tseng
Affiliations:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA MD 21250;Google Inc., Mountain View, USA CA 94043;University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA MD 21250;Yahoo! Inc., Santa Clara, USA CA 95054
Venue:
Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Microblogging is a new form of communication in which users describe their current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. We present our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of the social network in Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging systems. We find that people use microblogging primarily to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. We present a taxonomy characterizing the the underlying intentions users have in making microblogging posts. By aggregating the apparent intentions of users in implicit communities extracted from the data, we show that users with similar intentions connect with each other.