Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S.

Authors:
Asmelash Teka Hadgu;Kiran Garimella;Ingmar Weber
Affiliations:
L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany;Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar;Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
Venue:
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Year:
2013

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Abstract

We study the change in polarization of hashtags on Twitter over time and show that certain jumps in polarity are caused by "hijackers" engaged in a particular type of hashtag war.