Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Twitter, News Agencies, and SNAs

For those who are interested in using Twitter for their projects...

This researcher, Sudha Ram at the University of AZ, looked to see how news spread through Twitter for a number of news agencies. Nodes are twitter users, streams are retweets.

One interesting finding is the difference between Reuters and NY Times patterns of info diffusion: people retweeted directly from Reuters' tweets, whereas NY Times tweets were spread far and wide through long chains of retweets. Any thoughts on why this might be?

See title for link, or:

http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/bbc-vs-wired-whose-news-travels-on-twitter/

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