Towards understanding twitter use in software engineering: preliminary findings, ongoing challenges and future questions

Authors:
Gargi Bougie;Jamie Starke;Margaret-Anne Storey;Daniel M. German
Affiliations:
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada;University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada;University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada;University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering
Year:
2011

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Abstract

There has been some research conducted around the motivation for the use of Twitter and the value brought by micro-blogging tools to individuals and business environments. This paper builds on our understanding of how the phenomenon affects the population which birthed the technology: Software Engineers. We find that the Software Engineering community extensively leverages Twitter's capabilities for conversation and information sharing and that use of the tool is notably different between distinct Software Engineering groups. Our work exposes topics for future research and outlines some of the challenges in exploring this type of data.