Urban Twitter Networks and Communities: A Case Study of Microblogging in Athens

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  • Tasos Spiliotopoulos
  • Ian Oakley
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This paper examines the community formed by the Twitter users that used a city-level hashtag. In particular, we provide a network perspective of the city of Athens, Greece, as demonstrated by the analysis and visualization of the relevant Twitter hashtag data, in order to present both an overview and deeper insights at the microblogging practices of this geographic local network. Further analysis suggests that the Twitter community defined by the members of the network shows strong signs of a real-life community.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013