Abstract
Thousands of topics trend on Twitter across the world every day, making it increasingly challenging to provide real-time analysis of current issues, topics and themes being discussed across various locations and jurisdictions. There is thus a demand for simple and extensible approaches to provide deeper insight into these trends and how they propagate across locales. This paper represents one of the first studies to look at geospatial spread of trends on Twitter, presenting various techniques to provide increased understanding of how trends on social networks can spread across various regions and nations. It is based on a year-long data collection (N = 2,307,163) and analysis between 2016–2017 of seven Middle Eastern countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). Using this year-long dataset, the project investigates the popularity and geospatial spread of trends, focusing on trend information but not processing individual topics, with the findings showing that likelihood of trends spreading to other locales is to a large extent influenced by the place in which it first appeared.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2018) |
Subtitle of host publication | 5-7 September 2018 - Bristol, UK |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 167-177 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Volume | 11055 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-98443-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-98442-1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2018 |
Event | 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2018 → 7 Sept 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Conference | 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence |
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Abbreviated title | ICCCI 2018 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Bristol |
Period | 5/09/18 → 7/09/18 |
Keywords
- Trends
- Topic spread
- Popularity
- Network graphs
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