Transcript What is Twitter, a social network or news media ppt

Presented By:
Omofonmwan Nelson
Agenda:
Twitter
Benefits of Twitter
Tweet
Tweeter Services
Geographical Distribution
Conclusion
What is Twitter?
 It is microblog service of about six years old, which help in
identifying recent happenings.
 It contains 140 character limit per message.
 It has a traits of news media.
Why do people use Twitter
 Twitter can make it possible to predict movie profits based
on tweets.
 seeking for helps and opinions.
 To get in touch with friends and collegues.
 gathering useful information for one’s profession or other
personal interests.
 Twitter is useful as a low cost channel for posting jobs,
coupons, and business announcements.
Tweets
 Tweets are brief messages from a user to its followers.
 The unique thing about tweet is that it is limited to 140
characters, and much shorter than blog post.
 Tweet has its own particular abbreviation such as “RT“
(retweet) and “DM“ (direct message).
Retweets
 It also means to forward a tweet to your followers.
 Information is spread in Twitter in the form of reweet.
 Retweet helps to validate others’ thoughts.
Twitter Services
 Twitter creates the required infrastructure to make sure
that tweets which are written by users are transmitted to all
the User’s followers.
 Tweets from the user's friends are conveyed to the user in a
well-timed method.
 Twitter has API functions to obtain user-specific
information that can be used to build a network of friends.
Hashtag
 In Twitter; phrases, words and hashtags are trailed
which are often stated.
 Hashtags are words or phrases prefixed with the
symbol # character.
Top 20 users ranked by the number of followers, Page Rank in
the follower network, and the number of retweets
Twitter Growth Rate
Homophily
 Homophily is a tendency that a contact between similar
people occurs at a higher rate than among dissimilar
people.
 According to research, two users who follow reciprocally
share topical interests by mining their 50 thousands links
Reciprocity
 Low reciprocity makes Twitter different from other
social networks.
 Only 22.1 percent of Twitter user pairs follow each
other.
Geographical Distribution
 Twitter provides limited profile information such as
name, bio, time zone and location.
 Twitter’s popularity is global and the social network of
its users crosses continental boundaries
Conclusion:
 To a large extent, it shows that Twitter is more of news
media, and due to the low reciprocity distinguish
Twitter from other social networks.