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May 4, 2017 06:44 am GMT
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Australian Twitter communities are more diverse than you might think
What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year history of the platform, did these structures form?
These are the questions that guided a new, long-term study of the Australian national Twittersphere that my colleagues and I have undertaken.
Drawing on TrISMA, a major multi-institutional facility for social media analytics, we identified some 3.7 million Australian Twitter accounts in existence by early 2016, and captured the 167 million follower/followee connections between them. Read more...
More about Axel Bruns, The Conversation, Australia, Diversity, and TwitterOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/m0unLeayNy0/
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