Browsing is a collaborative process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
ACM SIGIR Forum
A Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks
Management Science
More Than an Answer: Information Relationships for Actionable Knowledge
Organization Science
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
What should blog search look like?
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Search in social media
Towards a model of understanding social search
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Exploring the cognitive consequences of social search
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
What do people ask their social networks, and why?: a survey study of status message q&a behavior
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Hashtag retrieval in a microblogging environment
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The wisdom in tweetonomies: acquiring latent conceptual structures from social awareness streams
Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Search Workshop
Information seeking in social context: structural influences andreceipt of information benefits
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Estimation methods for ranking recent information
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Question identification on twitter
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Collaborative search revisited
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Investigating the appropriateness of social network question asking as a resource for blind users
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Factors influencing the response rate in social question and answering behavior
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Understanding the potential of social questions in the web search
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
Social media question asking workshop
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
Questions about questions: an empirical analysis of information needs on Twitter
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Statistical analysis and implications of SNS search in under-developed countries
Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
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Microblogging services such as twitter.com have become popular venues for informal information interactions. An important aspect of these interaction is question asking. In this paper we report results from an analysis of a large sample of data from Twitter. Our analysis focused on the characteristics and strategies that people bring to asking questions in microblogs. In particular, based on our analysis, we propose a taxonomy of questions asked in microblogs. We find that microblog authors express questions to accomplish a wide variety of social and informational tasks. Some microblog questions seek immediate answers, while others accrue information over time. Our overarching finding is that question asking in microblogs is strongly tied to peoples' naturalistic interactions, and that the act of asking questions in Twitter is not analogous to information seeking in more traditional information retrieval environments.