Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics of twitter replies to news feeds

F. Biessmann, J. M. Papaioannou, A. Harth, M. L. Jugel, K. R. Muller, M. Braun

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Abstract

Social network analysis can be used to assess the impact of information published on the web. The spatiotemporal impact of a certain web source on a social network can be of particular interest. We contribute a novel statistical learning algorithm for spatiotemporal impact analysis. To demonstrate our approach we analyze Twitter replies to individual news article along with their geospatial and temporal information. We then compute the multivariate spatiotemporal response pattern of all Twitter replies to information published on a given web source. This quantitative result can be interpreted with respect to a) how much impact a certain web source has on the Twitter-sphere b) where and c) when it reaches it maximal impact. We also show that the proposed approach predicts the dynamics of the social network activity better than classical trend detection methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing - Proceedings of MLSP 2012
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event2012 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2012 - Santander, Spain
Duration: 2012 Sept 232012 Sept 26

Publication series

NameIEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP
ISSN (Print)2161-0363
ISSN (Electronic)2161-0371

Other

Other2012 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2012
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySantander
Period12/9/2312/9/26

Keywords

  • Social network analysis
  • canonical trends
  • spatiotemporal dynamics
  • tkCCA

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Signal Processing

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