Popularity and Geospatial Spread of Trends on Twitter: A Middle Eastern Case Study

Nabeel Albishry; Tom Crick; Tesleem Fagade; Theo Tryfonas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98443-8_16

Popularity and Geospatial Spread of Trends on Twitter: A Middle Eastern Case Study

Nabeel Albishry, Tom Crick, Tesleem Fagade, Theo Tryfonas

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98443-8_16
Publication status	Published - Sep 2018
Event	10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sep 2018 → 7 Sep 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence
Abbreviated title	ICCCI 2018
Country	United Kingdom
City	Bristol
Period	5/09/18 → 7/09/18

Keywords

Trends
Topic spread
Popularity
Network graphs
Twitter

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Albishry, N., Crick, T., Fagade, T., & Tryfonas, T. (2018). Popularity and Geospatial Spread of Trends on Twitter: A Middle Eastern Case Study. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2018): 5-7 September 2018 - Bristol, UK (Vol. 11055, pp. 167-177). [63] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98443-8_16

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Popularity and Geospatial Spread of Trends on Twitter : A Middle Eastern Case Study. / Albishry, Nabeel; Crick, Tom; Fagade, Tesleem; Tryfonas, Theo.

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2018): 5-7 September 2018 - Bristol, UK. Vol. 11055 Springer, 2018. p. 167-177 63 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Albishry N, Crick T, Fagade T, Tryfonas T. Popularity and Geospatial Spread of Trends on Twitter: A Middle Eastern Case Study. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2018): 5-7 September 2018 - Bristol, UK. Vol. 11055. Springer. 2018. p. 167-177. 63. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98443-8_16