Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter

By D. boyd, Scott Golder, Gilad Lotan. 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, methodology): “20 While the availability of large social datasets makes them suitable for quantitatively depicting behavior and populations, qualitative analyses are also used in social data research (boyd et al., 2010; Marwick, 2014; Tufekci, 2014), either alone or in conjunction with quantitative methods.”
Sociality Through Social Network Sites (2013, background): “For example, a study of manual retweeting practices on Twitter (boyd et al. 2010) quickly became outdated when Twitter launched its retweet functionality.”
Pass it on?: Retweeting in mass emergency (2010, background): “Inforum is a Ning-based social networking site attending to issues local to the Fargo-Moorhead area.”
Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API (2018, background): “tion and triggering political and societal change [1, 2].”
Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors (2010, background): “Recently, boyd et al. investigated retweet activity, which is the Twitter-equivalent of e-mail forwarding, where users post messages originally posted by others [5].”
Predicting the Political Alignment of Twitter Users (2011, background): “In addition to broadcasting tweets to an audience of followers, Twitter users interact with one another primarily in two public ways: retweets and mentions.”
Bad news travel fast: a content-based analysis of interestingness on Twitter (2011, background): “This practice is called retweeting and usually users retweet the content of general interest or concerned with the audience who follows their tweets [2].”
Partisan asymmetries in online political activity (2012, background): “One of the key functions of the Twitter platform is to serve as a medium for sharing information in the form of hyperlinks to external content (boyd et al., 2008).”
Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities (2013, neutral): “…which use Twitter as a backchannel – e.g. television shows (Deller, 2011) or conferences (Dröge, Maghferat, Puschmann, Verbina, & Weller, 2011; Weller, Dröge, & Puschmann, 2011) – and everyday inter-personal exchanges (boyd, Golder, & Lotan, 2010; Marwick & boyd, 2011; Papa-charissi, 2011).”
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience (2011, background): “This practice, commonly referred to as ‘retweeting’, can introduce content to new audiences (boyd et al., 2010).”
Towards Decision Support and Goal Achievement: Identifying Action-Outcome Relationships From Social Media (2015, background): “…roles, including experiential tweets that report on actions and events occurring that individuals are experiencing ﬁrst hand, but also includes the dissemination of information about broader news and other world events, chit chat with friends, and incitements to action and advocacy [32, 5, 26, 19].”
On the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data in Communication and Social Computing Research (2014, background): “This is what Coddington (2012) and boyd et al. (2010) sought to answer in asking their respective participants what their links and retweets meant, respectively.”
How is the Mobile Internet Different (2012, background): “A handful of papers have focused on microblogs in particular, including for example, Java et al. (2007) and Boyd et al. (2010).”