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The utility of social and topical factors in anticipating repliers in Twitter conversations
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Abstract Anticipating repliers in online conversations is a fundamental challenge for computer mediated communication systems which aim to make textual, audio and/or video communication as natural as face to face communication. The massive amounts of data that social media generates has facilitated the study... view more
Anticipating repliers in online conversations is a fundamental challenge for computer mediated communication systems which aim to make textual, audio and/or video communication as natural as face to face communication. The massive amounts of data that social media generates has facilitated the study of online conversations on a scale unimaginable a few years ago. In this work we use data from Twitter to explore the predictability of repliers, and investigate the factors which influence who will reply to a message. Our results suggest that social factors, which describe the strength of relations between users, are more useful than topical factors. This indicates that Twitter users' reply behavior is more impacted by social relations than by topics. Finally, we show that a binary classification model, which differentiates between users who will and users who will not reply to a certain message, may achieve an F1-score of 0.74 when using social features.... view less
Keywords
twitter; computer-mediated communication; interaction; interactive media; social media; behavior; social factors; internet community
Classification
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Twitter; social media communication; reply behavior; reply prediction
Collection Title
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Web Science Conference 2013
Conference
5. ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '13). Paris, 2013
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Publisher
ACM
City
New York
Page/Pages
p. 376-385
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2464464.2464481
ISBN
978-1-4503-1889-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications