Why We Twitter: An Analysis of a Microblogging Community
Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis
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
Backchannel persistence and collaborative meaning-making
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
A Visual Backchannel for Large-Scale Events
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"I can't get no sleep": discussing #insomnia on twitter
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Who is on your sofa?: TV audience communities and second screening social networks
Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Interactive tv and video
Tweet recall: examining real-time civic discourse on twitter
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Tracking and analyzing TV content on the web through social and ontological knowledge
Proceedings of the 11th european conference on Interactive TV and video
Tumblr fandoms, community & culture
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Social media services and microblogging applications, such as 'Twitter', are changing the way in which many people consume traditional broadcast media. Real-time backchannel conversations are now common-place as audiences simultaneously watch TV whilst using social media to broadcast their own thoughts, sentiments, opinions and emotions related to what they are watching. This individual behaviour, when aggregated, results in a new social experience comprising of mass, real-time, co-consumption of TV services. This paper describes a study which aims to understand user behaviour in this emerging area and provides some preliminary analysis of viewers' Twitter postings during the UK TV shows, The X Factor and Question Time. Our findings show that the postings expose audience engagement with TV shows and support the assertion of Twitter's growing confluence with broadcast media.