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05-04-2017, 02:00 PM
Australian Twitter communities are more diverse than you might think
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What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form?
These are the questions that guided a new, long-term study of the Australian national Twittersphere that my colleagues and I have undertaken.
Drawing on TrISMA (http://trisma.org/), a major multi-institutional facility for social media analytics, we identified some 3.7 million Australian Twitter accounts in existence by early 2016, and captured the 167 million follower/followee connections between them. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/twitter-diversity-i/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form?
These are the questions that guided a new, long-term study of the Australian national Twittersphere that my colleagues and I have undertaken.
Drawing on TrISMA (http://trisma.org/), a major multi-institutional facility for social media analytics, we identified some 3.7 million Australian Twitter accounts in existence by early 2016, and captured the 167 million follower/followee connections between them. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/twitter-diversity-i/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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