TY - GEN
T1 - Tweets are forever
T2 - 2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013
AU - Almuhimedi, Hazim
AU - Wilson, Shomir
AU - Liu, Bin
AU - Sadeh, Norman
AU - Acquisti, Alessandro
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper describes an empirical study of 1.6M deleted tweets collected over a continuous one-week period from a set of 292K Twitter users. We examine several aggregate properties of deleted tweets, including their connections to other tweets (e.g., whether they are replies or retweets), the clients used to produce them, temporal aspects of deletion, and the presence of geotagging information. Some significant differences were discovered between the two collections, namely in the clients used to post them, their conversational aspects, the sentiment vocabulary present in them, and the days of the week they were posted. However, in other dimensions for which analysis was possible, no substantial differences were found. Finally, we discuss some ramifications of this work for understanding Twitter usage and management of one's privacy.
AB - This paper describes an empirical study of 1.6M deleted tweets collected over a continuous one-week period from a set of 292K Twitter users. We examine several aggregate properties of deleted tweets, including their connections to other tweets (e.g., whether they are replies or retweets), the clients used to produce them, temporal aspects of deletion, and the presence of geotagging information. Some significant differences were discovered between the two collections, namely in the clients used to post them, their conversational aspects, the sentiment vocabulary present in them, and the days of the week they were posted. However, in other dimensions for which analysis was possible, no substantial differences were found. Finally, we discuss some ramifications of this work for understanding Twitter usage and management of one's privacy.
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U2 - 10.1145/2441776.2441878
DO - 10.1145/2441776.2441878
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875078606
SN - 9781450313315
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 897
EP - 907
BT - CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Y2 - 23 February 2013 through 27 February 2013
ER -