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What is Twitter, a social Network or a News Media?. Presented By: Omofonmwan Nelson. Agenda:. Twitter Benefits of Twitter Tweet Tweeter Services Geographical Distribution Conclusion. What is Twitter?.
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What is Twitter, a social Network or a News Media? Presented By: Omofonmwan Nelson
Agenda: • Twitter • Benefits of Twitter • Tweet • Tweeter Services • Geographical Distribution • Conclusion
What is Twitter? • It is microblog service of aboutsix years old, which help in identifying recent happenings. • It contains 140 character limit per message. • It has a traits of news media.
Why do people use Twitter • Twitter can make it possible to predict movie profits based on tweets. • seeking for helps and opinions. • To get in touch with friends and collegues. • gathering useful information for one’s profession or other personal interests. • Twitter is useful as a low cost channel for posting jobs, coupons, and business announcements.
Tweets • Tweets are brief messages from a user to its followers. • The unique thing about tweet is that it is limited to 140 characters, and much shorter than blog post. • Tweet has its own particular abbreviation such as “RT“ (retweet) and “DM“ (direct message).
Retweets • It also means to forward a tweet to your followers. • Information isspread in Twitter in the form of reweet. • Retweet helps to validate others’ thoughts.
Twitter Services • Twitter creates the required infrastructure to make sure that tweets which are written by users are transmitted to all the User’s followers. • Tweets from the user's friends are conveyed to the user in a well-timed method. • Twitter has API functions to obtain user-specific information that can be used to build a network of friends.
Hashtag • In Twitter; phrases, words and hashtags are trailed which are often stated. • Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the symbol # character.
Top 20 users ranked by the number of followers, Page Rank in the follower network, and the number of retweets
Homophily • Homophily is a tendency that a contact between similar people occurs at a higher rate than among dissimilar people. • According to research, two users who follow reciprocally share topical interests by mining their 50 thousands links
Reciprocity • Low reciprocity makes Twitter different from other social networks. • Only 22.1 percent of Twitter user pairs follow each other.
Geographical Distribution • Twitter provides limited profile information such as name, bio, time zone and location. • Twitter’s popularity is global and the social network of its users crosses continental boundaries
Conclusion: • To a large extent, it shows that Twitter is more of news media, and due to the low reciprocity distinguish Twitter from other social networks.