A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices

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This work contributes to the study of retweet behavior on Twitter surrounding real-world events. We analyze over a million tweets pertaining to three events, present general tweet properties in such topical datasets and qualitatively analyze the properties of the retweet behavior surrounding the most tweeted/viral content pieces. Findings include a clear relationship between sparse/dense retweet patterns and the content and type of a tweet itself; suggesting the need to study content properties in link-based diffusion models.

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Nagarajan, M., Purohit, H., & Sheth, A. P. (2010). A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/553

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