TY - GEN
T1 - A comparative temporal analysis of user-content-interaction in social media
AU - Hauffa, Jan
AU - Groh, Georg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/9/12
Y1 - 2019/9/12
N2 - How long does content published via online social networks and media receive attention? We derive a novel definition of content lifetime from the temporal distribution of user-content interactions and apply it to a comparative study of multiple traditional and modern online social media. This characterization of lifetime is not only relevant for learning about human behavior on social media; when designing an experiment on social media data that involves temporal quantization, it can assist in making a principled choice of interval size. We find that across all media, interactions take place on four main time scales: short term activity of at most 15 minutes, medium term activity in the range of one hour and two days, respectively, and long term activity of two weeks or more.
AB - How long does content published via online social networks and media receive attention? We derive a novel definition of content lifetime from the temporal distribution of user-content interactions and apply it to a comparative study of multiple traditional and modern online social media. This characterization of lifetime is not only relevant for learning about human behavior on social media; when designing an experiment on social media data that involves temporal quantization, it can assist in making a principled choice of interval size. We find that across all media, interactions take place on four main time scales: short term activity of at most 15 minutes, medium term activity in the range of one hour and two days, respectively, and long term activity of two weeks or more.
KW - Social media
KW - Social networking services
KW - Temporal dynamics
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85073480663
U2 - 10.1145/3345645.3351102
DO - 10.1145/3345645.3351102
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073480663
T3 - SIdEWayS 2019 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors
SP - 7
EP - 12
BT - SIdEWayS 2019 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 5th ACM International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors, SIdEWayS 2019, in conjunction with the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT 2019
Y2 - 17 September 2019
ER -