#TwitterSearch: a comparison of microblog search and web search

By Jaime Teevan, Daniel Ramage, Meredith Ringel Morris. 2011

424 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Teevan et al. (2011) found web and microblogging search to capture distinct use cases: queries on Twitter are shorter and more popular, focusing on temporally relevant information and people, while web queries tend to develop as users learn more about a topic.”
From chatter to headlines: harnessing the real-time web for personalized news recommendation (2012, background): “[22] reports that 49% of users search while looking for information related to news, or to topics gaining popularity, and in general to “to keep up with events.”
Sampling Content from Online Social Networks (2015, methodology): “…contains useful topical information is highly correlated with the presence of hashtags or URLs in the tweet (as has also been observed in prior studies [Teevan et al. 2011]). to the random digest, the expert digest has twice as many tweets with hashtags and four times as many tweets with URLs .”
Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models (2011, background): “A most recent piece of work [15] tries to explore search behavior on the popular microblogging site Twitter, which also has a different focus than ours.”
On the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data in Communication and Social Computing Research (2014, background): “Seven of the ten social computing articles about hyperlinks either lack either justifications for their interpretations or lack interpretations alto-gether (those not already mentioned are Chen et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010; Teevan et al., 2011; and Tsagkias et al., 2011).”
Towards Supporting Search over Trending Events with Social Media (2013, methodology): “All rights reserved. finding and monitoring information about time-sensitive topics (Teevan, Ramage, and Morris 2011).”
Understanding and combating link farming in the twitter social network (2012, background): “As the information shared over Twitter grows rapidly, search is increasingly being used to ﬁnd interesting trending topics and recent news [26].”
Searching microblogs: coping with sparsity and document quality (2011, background): “This is of particular interest, as queries on Twitter are typically short: 1.64 words on average [15].”
Tweeting is believing?: understanding microblog credibility perceptions (2012, background): “Search-based access to tweets has become increasingly available through third-party search tools, including Google [24] and Bing [33], and researchers have begun to study how people use search to access microblog updates [7, 37].”