Can Twitter Replace Newswire for Breaking News?
Can Twitter Replace Newswire for Breaking News?
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10.1609/icwsm.v7i1.14450
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2013-06
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S. Petrovic;M. Osborne;R. McCreadie;Craig Macdonald;I. Ounis;Luke Shrimpton
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作者：
S. Petrovic;M. Osborne;R. McCreadie;Craig Macdonald;I. Ounis;Luke Shrimpton
Twitter通常被认为是一个有用的实时新闻来源，有可能取代Newswire。但这是真的吗？在本文中，我们研究在何种程度上新闻报道在新闻专线和Twitter的重叠，以及Twitter是否经常报告新闻比传统的新闻专线提供商更快。特别是，我们分析了77天的tweet和newswire文章，包括手动识别的重大新闻事件和大量自动识别的新闻事件。我们的研究结果表明，Twitter的报告相同的事件作为新闻通讯提供商，除了被主流媒体忽略的小事件的长尾。然而，与流行的看法相反，在处理重大新闻事件时，两个流都没有领先于另一个流，这表明Twitter在新闻环境中的价值主要来自于事件报道的增加，而不是报道的及时性。
Twitter is often considered to be a useful source of real-time news, potentially replacing newswire for this purpose. But is this true? In this paper, we examine the extent to which news reporting in newswire and Twitter overlap and whether Twitter often reports news faster than traditional newswire providers. In particular, we analyse 77 days worth of tweet and newswire articles with respect to both manually identified major news events and larger volumes of automatically identified news events. Our results indicate that Twitter reports the same events as newswire providers, in addition to a long tail of minor events ignored by mainstream media. However, contrary to popular belief, neither stream leads the other when dealing with major news events, indicating that the value that Twitter can bring in a news setting comes predominantly from increased event coverage, not timeliness of reporting.