Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events

By Amanda Lee Hughes, Leysia Palen. 2009

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Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency (2014, background): “For example, in many disaster situations, people post situation-sensitive information on social media related to what they experience, witness, and/or hear from other sources [Hughes and Palen 2009].”
SensePlace2: GeoTwitter analytics support for situational awareness (2011, background): “Twitter specifically has drawn considerable research attention as a tool to gather information, disseminate information, coordinate actions, and support SA [24-27].”
"OMG, from here, I can see the flames!": a use case of mining location based social networks to acquire spatio-temporal data on forest fires (2009, background): “The first three are addressing hyperbole of recent newspaper articles, whereas H4 is one of the conclusion points of [9].”
Learning Semantic Relationships between Entities in Twitter (2011, background): “People typically post short status messages, interesting information they read from daily news, updates on current hot topics, their views and opinions on a certain subject matter, developments in their profession, materials about their interests, et cetera [16,12,23].”
Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events (2012, background): “… of the Internet usage .rstly, the Internet is replacing traditional media like television and print media as a source for obtaining news and information about current events [16]; secondly, the Internet has provided a platform for common people to share information and express their opinions.”
Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities (2013, unknown): “…Lotan, Ananny, Gaffney, & boyd, 2011; Small, 2011; Stieglitz & Dang-Xuan, 2012b), crisis communication (Bruns, Burgess, Crawford, & Shaw, 2012; Hughes & Palen, 2009; Mendoza, Poblete, & Castillo, 2010; Palen, Starbird, Vieweg, & Hughes, 2010), brand communication (Krüger, Stieglitz, &…”
Twitter under crisis: can we trust what we RT? (2010, background): “Hughes and Palen have described the use of Twitter during emergencies such as hurricanes and mass convergence events such as political-party conventions [3].”
Pandemics in the Age of Twitter: Content Analysis of Tweets during the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak (2010, result): “Our results correspond to a study of Twitter use during Hurricane Gustav and Ike, where roughly half of all hurricane-related tweets contained URLs (web-resources) [22].”
The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions (2011, background): “…events, including serving as a backchannel to American TV political debates (Shamma, Kennedy, & Churchill, 2009), a site for coordination in emergency events (Hughes & Palen, 2009; Sutton, Palen, & Shklovski, 2008), and a space for making sense of emergent news events (Yardi & boyd, 2010).”
Communicating on Twitter during a disaster: An analysis of tweets during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (2015, background): “Other researchers suggest that adoption and continued use of social media after a disaster is considerable as individuals perceive social media as a way to help in the response and recovery efforts, and in rebuilding a sense of community (Hughes & Palen, 2009).”
Chatter on the red: what hazards threat reveals about the social life of microblogged information (2010, background): “As one data point, about 70% of tweets sent in the August-September 2008 time frame were public [9].”
Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API (2018, unknown): “geopolitical events [8] or security concerns [9].”
Information diffusion in online social networks: a survey (2013, unknown): “presidential elections [23] for instance.”