How groups of people interact with each other on Twitter during academic conferences

  • Authors:

  • Xidao Wen;Denis Parra;Christoph Trattner

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;PUC Chile, Santiago, Chile;Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

This paper shows a work-in-progress of a recently started project, which aims to understand how people interact with each other on Twitter during academic conferences, with emphasis on different user groups. As a first step in that direction, we manually classified the users of four conferences into five user groups and investigated with which other groups they communicate, how much they contribute to the Twitter stream and how much attention they receive from their peers.