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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.…
Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms
Isaac Waller, Ashton Anderson
Optimism about the Internet's potential to bring the world together has been tempered by concerns about its role in inflaming the 'culture wars'. Via mass selection into like-minde…
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…
From Welcome New Gabbers to the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: The Evolution of Gab
Reid McIlroy-Young, Ashton Anderson
Gab, an online social media platform with very little content moderation, has recently come to prominence as an alt-right community and a haven for hate speech. We document the evo…
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…
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…
Mapping the Invocation Structure of Online Political Interaction
Manish Raghavan, Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg
The surge in political information, discourse, and interaction has been one of the most important developments in social media over the past several years. There is rich structure…
Exploring limits to prediction in complex social systems
Travis Martin, Jake M. Hofman, Amit Sharma +2
How predictable is success in complex social systems? In spite of a recent profusion of prediction studies that exploit online social and information network data, this question re…
Engaging with Massive Online Courses
Ashton Anderson, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg +1
The Web has enabled one of the most visible recent developments in education---the deployment of massive open online courses. With their global reach and often staggering enrollmen…