DIATA12 2nd Düsseldorf Workshop on

Interdisciplinary Approaches

to Twitter Analysis

(#diata12)

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

March 21, 2012

Organized by Katrin Weller & Cornelius Puschmann and the researchers group

„science and the internet“

http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/diata12

#DIATA12 = pre-conference workshop of #DGI2012

http://tiny.cc/dgi2012-programme

DIATA12 – statistics

Participants from 6 countries

4 sessions + discussion

8 presentations

8

DIATA12 – topics

Background: Twitter research in Düsseldorf

Networks & structures Corporate and political

communication

Legal issues User engagement Archiving

DIATA12 – organisation

• Hashtag: #diata12

More Twitter stuff:

• Tutorial at #dgi2012 (Thursday, 13:30-15:00)

• Different presentations at #dgi2012

Background: Science and the Internet

http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/

#NFGWIN

6 projects

8 persons

5 disciplines

1 overall topic

Background: Science and the Internet

The projects

Digital genres of publication

Educational beliefs Law and scientific

internet usage

Change of the “Publication” concept

Citations in Web 2.0 3D environments

Background: Science and the Internet

Current activities

Guest lectures

Doctoral class

Courses for academic staff

Media trainings

1-3 August 2012, Düsseldorf

Conference: #cosci12

Scientific Twitter usage

Work across subprojects

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

Metrics, Ethics,

and Soccer…

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

Background: DIATA11

DIATA11: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/diata11

Slides online: http://tiny.cc/diata11-slides

Twitter research in Düsseldorf

Current topics

Twitter in academia Twitter for teaching Citations on Twitter

TEPCO Discourse analytics Soccer and Twitter

Twitter in Academia

AcademicTwitter Usage

Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and

Measured? In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. View the

poster online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller/twitter-for-scientific-communication

Retweet-Networks over Time

Data from Digital Humanities Conference 2010 (7-10 July 2010), Source:: Puschmann, C., Weller, K., & Dröge, E. (2011). Studying Twitter

conversations as (dynamic) graphs: visualization and structural comparison. Presented at General Online Research, 14-16 March 2011,

Düsseldorf, Germany. Retrieved from http://ynada.com/posters/gor11.pdf.

Tweet Contents

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#mla09 #www2010

Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der Twitter-

Kommunikation bei wisseschaftlichen Konferenzen. http://bit.ly/qKQ2Nd

“Citations” on Twitter?

Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and

Measured? In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. View the

poster online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller/twitter-for-scientific-communication

What is Highly Cited?

References to academic organizations

Top 50 users per category

1 private, individual

2 scientist

3 media

4 scientific institution

5 lobby, company

6 political

11 mpg

99 unclear

Users linking to Max Planck Gesellschaft

Ongoing project with Merja Mahrt , Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

Soccer & Twitter (project QUT & HHU)

Twitterleague

Recent Work: Twitterleague

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soccer team accounts ranked by followers

Distribution of followers in 3 soccer leagues (as of March 2012)

Bundesliga

Premier League

A-League

Twitterleague

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German football clubs ranked by followers, 21.07.2011

Twitterleague

German football clubs ranked by followers, 19.03.2012

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@fcbayern_news

@BayMuenchen

@BVBDortmund09,@BVB

@werderbremen

@HSV

@fckoeln

@FCSchalke04, @s04

@VfLBorussia

@VfL_Wolfsburg

@Ichbin96,@hannover96

@1_fc_nuernberg

@HerthaBSC

@bayer04fussball

@Rote_Teufel

@VfB

@sc_freiburg

@Hoffenheim

@1FSVMainz05

@FCAugsburg

Verified accounts

As of July 2011:

Now: Sept.

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Guess who‘s missing…

Bayern München

Bayern München

Bayern München

Source: http://universal-code.de/2012/03/20/fc-bayern-stern-des-netzwerks/

Difficulties with accounts and user names

was @BVBDortmund09 now @BVB

was @Ichbin96 now @hannover96

@bayer04fussball vs. @BayerLeverkusen

@FCSchalke04 @s04

@Werder_Bremen @werderbremen

Schalke 04

FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund

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on 24.06.2011 on 21.07.2011 on 18.08.2011 on 13.09.2011

@BVBDortmund09

@fckoeln

1.34

1.31

1.21

1.15

1.13

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Number of followers.

FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund

Average number of tweets per user (and per day) that mention a certain football team‘s account

Twitter supporting German soccer games

Twitter supporting German soccer games

Soccer on Twitter

Tonight:

Borussia Mönchengladbach vs. Bayern München (#dfbpokal)

Prediction: 2:2

then Borussia wins after penalties

Other current projects

Timo van Treeck:

Learning environments on Twitter

• MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

• #opco11 – Open Course „Zukunft des Lernens“, 2. May - 17. June

2011

• Over 900 registered participants

• 3.550 Tweets von 362 Twitter users, period 20. May until 26. July

2011

• Currently: #opco12

Interested? Meet Timo van Treeck during DGI2012 poster session.

Other current projects

Agnes Mainka:

Research corpus of tweets for testing discourse analytics methods:

• Is it possible to automatically extract dialogues from Twitter?

• Is there a typical time span for Twitter dialogues?

Development of a method to automatically detect discourses on Twitter

with corpus linguistics.

• How successful is part of speech tagging?

Interested? Agnes Mainka:

„Korpusbasierte Online-Dialoganalyse am Beispiel Twitter“

Session 11 at #dgi2012. Friday, March 23, 2012. 2.30 pm

Other current projects

Cornelius Puschmann:

Discourse cohesion in Twitter conversations in different

communities of interest

Other current projects

Ulrike Ezold

Tweeting during the crisis: How did the japanese energy company

TEPCO use twitter since the disaster on 11.03.2011?

Interested? Ulrike Ezold:

„Krisengezwitscher: Wie nutzt der japanische Energiekonzern TEPCO

Twitter während der Fukushima-Katastrophe? “

Poster Session at #dgi2012. Thursday, March 22, 2012., 3 pm.

DIATA12 – workshop discussion

Pirate pad: http://tiny.cc/diata12

Aim for this workshop

Discussion on:

What types of methods are used to obtain certain results?

• Collect approaches

• Collect measures, metrics

• Collect aims

What problems are experienced:

• With data collection

• With data preparation

Welcome to Düsseldorf!

Dr. Katrin Weller Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Dept. of Information Science Dept. of English Language and Linguistics

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.21.04.68, Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.11.01.21

D-40225 Düsseldorf D-40225 Düsseldorf

E-Mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de E-Mail: cornelius.puschmann@uni-

duesseldorf.de

Twitter: @kwelle Twitter: @coffee001