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Naaman, Mor, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai. \u201cIs it really about me? Message Content in Social Awareness Streams.\u201d ACM Digital Library, ACM,\u00a0dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1718953<\/a>. Accessed 30 Aug. 2017.<\/p>\n

Akshay Java, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin, Belle Tseng. \u201cWhy We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities\u201d.\u00a0http:\/\/aisl.umbc.edu\/resources\/369.pdf<\/a>. Accessed 30 Aug. 2017.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paper “Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities” studied and presented data that related to communities within twitter, how they interact with each other, the different types of users within those communities, and how those users spread and gather information through twitter. \u00a0They studied geographical distribution and user intention to conclude that the three kinds of user intentions are daily chatter, conversations, and reporting news. \u00a0They also concluded that the three user types are information sources, friends, and information seekers.<\/p>\n

Similarly, “Is it really about me? Message Content in Social Awareness Streams” studies and analyzed the data scraped from the twitter API to figure out the recent changes in communication and social interaction due to twitter and other social media sites. \u00a0They also found distinct differences in the different users of twitter, some being focused on sharing information and most being focused on themselves and their lives. \u00a0More informational users tend to be more active, talk more often with other users, and usually have more followers.<\/p>\n

Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both of the above papers described and researched how twitter is changing the way that people communicate and the communities and networks that have been created by this new way of communicating. \u00a0Both of the papers did extensive and applicable research, and explaining their findings fairly well. \u00a0They both also gave good insight into the questions and problems presented in the abstracts.<\/p>\n

Twitter is probably the social media site that I use the most, so I feel like I can relate to and understand a lot of the findings presented in both of the above research papers. \u00a0Generally, I feel like I am a mixture between a “friend” type user and an “information seeker” user. \u00a0I know of and follow a lot of accounts that are strictly “information seekers”, and, as the research suggests, those accounts are not nearly as active as others. \u00a0\u00a0I would also like to know how common it is for users to classify themselves as “seekers” and “friends”, or other combinations of the different types of users. \u00a0The user intentions, however, are a bit more generalized than I would have expected. \u00a0From my experience, I have found that there are a lot more types of interactions, and I hope more extensive research can be done on the topic in the future.<\/p>\n

I would like to see how this research has held up over the years and if it is still accurate. \u00a0From what I understand, twitter has recently made an effort to push current event stories on all types of users, even those who aren’t necessarily “information seekers”. \u00a0I would also like to see if the growth rates of twitter have remained constant throughout the history of the website. \u00a0I would also like to know how “retweeting” tweets relates to the different types of users and different types of intentions.<\/p>\n

Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n