Tag Archives: twitter

Just how virtual are virtual social networks?

19 Sep 2008 – 20:30

I’ve been working on a social sensemaking project with Peter Pirolli at PARC. In the process of designing it, we realized that there were smaller pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, that could be investigated one at a time. The results I’m reporting here are from a study looking at just how virtual today’s [...]

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If you are who you “follow” …..

8 Sep 2008 – 11:41

…then I should be into design, technology, business, twitter, web 2.0, social, and social media.
As a Cognitive Science/HCI person studying social media, that’s pretty close My friend Mike Krieger produced this from a little experiment he did last weekend. The idea is simple:

Take a Twitter user’s friends (who they follow).
Look at each of [...]

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Following the KPBS Twitter feed (part II)

15 Feb 2008 – 16:40

After interviewing KPBS about their Twitter activity during the San Diego fires, I was curious to hear from individuals who actually used the Twitter stream for updates. In addition to my posting here, I posted a few questions on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk about how people found and used the Twitter stream. The questions and a [...]

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Did you follow the KPBS Twitter feed during the San Diego fires?

12 Dec 2007 – 10:55

Brief intro: I am interested in how people use and appropriate technology (especially new Web technology). When I read a workshop paper over the summer on Why We Twitter (Java, Song, Finin, and Tseng), I realized that microblogging services like Twitter deserved real attention from the research community. As a light-weight, free, mobile tool [...]

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