Twitter Posting
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A Twitter Posting is a short posting on the Twitter Service.
- AKA: Tweet.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be shorter than 141 Text Characters.
- It can (typically) be a member of a Twittersphere (and member of a Twitter dataset).
- It can (often) be classified as Daily Chatter, Conversation Item, Information Sharing Item, or News Reporting Item.
- Example(s):
- “
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP” 11:36 PM - 22 Feb 2015 http://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/569762773204217857
- “
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Text Item.
References
2007
- (Java et al., 2007) ⇒ Akshay Java, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin, and Belle Tseng. (2007). “Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities.” In: Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis (WebKDD/SNA-KDD '07). doi:10.1145/1348549.1348556
- QUOTE: It suggests that tweets can be naturally categorized based on the user objectives of: daily chatter, conversation, information sharing, and news reporting.