How people describe themselves on Twitter

  • Authors:
  • Konstantinos Semertzidis;Evaggelia Pitoura;Panayiotis Tsaparas

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York, UK;University of Ioannina, Greece;University of Ioannina, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Databases and Social Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Twitter, being both a micro-blogging service and a social network, has become one of the primary means of communicating and disseminating information online. As such, significant amount of research has been devoted to analyzing the Twitter graph, the tweets, and the behavior of its users. In this work, we undertake a study of the user profile bios on Twitter. The goal of our study is two-fold: first, to understand what Twitter users choose to expose about themselves in their profile bio, and second, to investigate if it is possible to exploit the information in the user bio for tasks such as predicting connections between Twitter users.