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Biased Bytes: On the Validity of Estimating Food Consumption from Digital Traces
Kristina Gligorić, Irena Đorđević, Robert West
Given that measuring food consumption at a population scale is a challenging task, researchers have begun to explore digital traces (e.g., from social media or from food-tracking a…
Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit
Kristina Gligorić, Justyna Częstochowska, Ashton Anderson +1
The design of online platforms is both critically important and challenging, as any changes may lead to unintended consequences, and it can be hard to predict how users will react.…
Formation of Social Ties Influences Food Choice: A Campus-Wide Longitudinal Study
Kristina Gligorić, Ryen W. White, Emre Kıcıman +3
Nutrition is a key determinant of long-term health, and social influence has long been theorized to be a key determinant of nutrition. It has been difficult to quantify the postula…
Adoption of Twitter's New Length Limit: Is 280 the New 140?
Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, Robert West
In November 2017, Twitter doubled the maximum allowed tweet length from 140 to 280 characters, a drastic switch on one of the world's most influential social media platforms. In th…
Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis
Kristina Gligorić, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Martin Müller +5
Timely access to accurate information is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prompted by key stakeholders' cautioning against an "infodemic", we study information sharing on Twit…
Causal Effects of Brevity on Style and Success in Social Media
Kristina Gligoric, Ashton Anderson, Robert West
In online communities, where billions of people strive to propagate their messages, understanding how wording affects success is of primary importance. In this work, we are interes…
Message Distortion in Information Cascades
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Robert West
Information diffusion is usually modeled as a process in which immutable pieces of information propagate over a network. In reality, however, messages are not immutable, but may be…
How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter's Switch from 140 to 280 Characters
Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, Robert West
It is often said that constraints affect creative production, both in terms of form and quality. Online social media platforms frequently impose constraints on the content that use…