Searching Twitter: Separating the Tweet from the Chaff

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Abstract

Within the millions of digital communications posted in online social networks, there is undoubtedly some valuable and useful information. Although a large portion of social media content is considered to be babble, research shows that people share useful links, provide recommendations to friends, answer questions, and solve problems. In this paper, we report on a qualitative investigation into the different factors that make tweets ‘useful’ and ‘not useful’ for a set of common search tasks. The investigation found 16 features that help make a tweet useful, noting that useful tweets often showed 2 or 3 of these features. ‘Not useful’ tweets, however, typically had only one of 17 clear and striking features. Further, we saw that these features can be weighted as according to different types of search tasks. Our results contribute a novel framework for extracting useful information from real-time streams of social-media content that will be used in the design of a future retrieval system.

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Hurlock, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2011). Searching Twitter: Separating the Tweet from the Chaff. In Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011 (pp. 161–168). AAAI Press. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14117

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