Breaking news on twitter
Breaking news on twitter
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DOI：
10.1145/2207676.2208672
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2012-05
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Mengdie Hu;Shixia Liu;Furu Wei;Yingcai Wu;J. Stasko;K. Ma
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Mengdie Hu;Shixia Liu;Furu Wei;Yingcai Wu;J. Stasko;K. Ma
在奥萨马·本·拉登的死讯通过Twitter泄露后，许多人想知道Twitter是否会从根本上改变我们生产、传播和消费新闻的方式。在本文中，我们提供了一个深入的分析，如何在Twitter上的新闻爆发和传播。我们证实了Twitter首先爆料的说法，并找到了Twitter在主流媒体证实这一消息之前说服了大量受众的证据。我们还发现，Twitter上的注意力高度集中在少数“意见领袖”身上，并确定了三组在传播新闻中发挥关键作用的意见领袖：与媒体有关联的个人在爆料方面发挥了很大作用，大众媒体将新闻带给了更广泛的受众，并为热切的Twitter用户提供了外部网站上的内容，名人们帮助传播新闻，激发人们的讨论。我们的研究结果表明，Twitter作为新闻媒体具有巨大的潜力。
After the news of Osama Bin Laden's death leaked through Twitter, many people wondered if Twitter would fundamentally change the way we produce, spread, and consume news. In this paper we provide an in-depth analysis of how the news broke and spread on Twitter. We confirm the claim that Twitter broke the news first, and find evidence that Twitter had convinced a large number of its audience before mainstream media confirmed the news. We also discover that attention on Twitter was highly concentrated on a small number of "opinion leaders" and identify three groups of opinion leaders who played key roles in spreading the news: individuals affiliated with media played a large part in breaking the news, mass media brought the news to a wider audience and provided eager Twitter users with content on external sites, and celebrities helped to spread the news and stimulate conversation. Our findings suggest Twitter has great potential as a news medium.