From "I Love You Babe" to "Leave Me Alone" - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter
By Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Sonia Dal Cin. 2014
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We use public data from Twitter to study the breakups of the romantic relationships of 661 couples. Couples are identified through profile references such as @user1 writing “@user2 is the best boyfriend ever!!”. Using this data set we find evidence for a number of existing hypotheses describing psychological processes including (i) pre-relationship closeness being indicative of post-relationship closeness, (ii) “stonewalling”, i.e., ignoring messages by a partner, being indicative of a pending breakup, and (iii) post-breakup depression. We also observe a previously undocumented phenomenon of “batch un-friending and being un-friended” where users who break up experience sudden drops of 15-20 followers and friends.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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