Patterns of event propagation in online social networks provide novel insights on the modeling and analysis of information dissemination over networks and physical systems. This paper studies the importance of follower links for event propagation on Twitter. Three recent event propagation traces are collected with the user languages being used to identify the Network of Networks (NoN) structure...

2 weeks after the Great Tohoku earthquake followed by the devastating tsunami, we have sent open-ended questionnaires to a randomly selected sample of twitter users and also analyzed the tweets sent from the disaster-hit areas. We found that people in directly affected areas tend to tweet about their unsafe and uncertain situation while people in remote areas post messages to let their follower...

This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific papers deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusses the implication of the presence of such bots from the perspective of social media metrics (altmetrics), where mentions of scholarly documents on Twitter have been suggested as a means of measuring impact that is bot...

The wealth of texts available publicly online for analysis is ever increasing. Much work in computational linguistics focuses on syntactic, contextual, morphological and phonetic analysis on written documents, vocal recordings, or texts on the internet. Twitter messages present a unique challenge for computational linguistic analysis due to their constrained size. The constraint of 140 characte...

Social networking services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) are now major sources of World Wide Web (called "Web") dynamics, together with Web search services (e.g., Google). These two types of Web services mutually influence each other but generate different dynamics. In this paper, we distinguish two modes of Web dynamics: the reactive mode and the default mode. It is assumed that Twitter messages (...

We present a ranking approach for Twitter documents that exploits social hashtagging behavior. We first map topics of user interest, represented by keywords, to a set of twitter hashtags that we use as query terms to retrieve twitter documents (tweets) based on tf-idf scores, with the additional restrictions that the documents retrieved should occur before the query timestamp. We show that this...

Social media sites such as Twitter are attractive sources of information due to their combination of accessibility, timeliness and large data volumes. Identification of medical entities in Twitter can support tasks such public health surveillance. We propose an approach to perform annotation of medical entities using a sequence to sequence neural network. Results show that our approach improves...