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Rising tides or rising stars?: Dynamics of shared attention on Twitter during media events
Yu-Ru Lin, Brian Keegan, Drew Margolin +1
"Media events" such as political debates generate conditions of shared attention as many users simultaneously tune in with the dual screens of broadcast and social media to view an…
cs.SI2013★ 29 cited
#Bigbirds Never Die: Understanding Social Dynamics of Emergent Hashtag
Yu-Ru Lin, Drew Margolin, Brian Keegan +2
We examine the growth, survival, and context of 256 novel hashtags during the 2012 U.S. presidential debates. Our analysis reveals the trajectories of hashtag use fall into two dis…