Retweetability analysis and prediction during Hurricane sandy

Venkata K. Neppalli, Murilo Cerqueira Medeiros, Cornelia Caragea, Doina Caragea, Andrea H. Tapia, Shane Halse

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Abstract

Twitter is a very important source for obtaining information, especially during events such as natural disasters. Users can spread information in Twitter either by crafting new posts, which are called "tweets," or by using retweet mechanism to re-post the previously created tweets. During natural disasters, identifying how likely a tweet is to be highly retweeted is very important since it can help promote the spread of good information in a network such as Twitter, as well as it can help stop the spread of misinformation, when corroborated with approaches that identify trustworthy information or misinformation, respectively. In this paper, we present an analysis on retweeted tweets to determine several aspects affecting retweetability. We then extract features from tweets' content and user account information and perform experiments to develop models that automatically predict the retweetability of a tweet in the context of the Hurricane Sandy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationISCRAM 2016 Conference Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
EditorsPedro Antunes, Victor Amadeo Banuls Silvera, Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Kathleen Ann Moore, Andrea H. Tapia
PublisherInformation Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
ISBN (Electronic)9788460879848
StatePublished - 2016
Event13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2016 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: May 22 2016May 25 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference
ISSN (Electronic)2411-3387

Other

Other13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2016
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityRio de Janeiro
Period5/22/165/25/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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