Document Type
Other
Publication Date
9-13-2010
Course
Global Political Communication (030:166:001)
Instructor
G. R. Boynton
Twitter Search Words
Aaliyah, Setembro, Obama
Search Start Date
September 10, 2010
Search End Date
September 10, 2010
Keywords
hashtag (#), URL (http), RT @ (retweet)
Abstract
There are three conventions in Twitter to make Twitter more convenient for users. These conventions are the Hashtag (#), URL, and RT. Hashtag format is #. It describes the general topic of a twitter message. For example, if someone wrote a twitter message and put # Obama then that twitter message is written about Obama. Also as each Twitter message has a limit of 140 characters, twitter users use a URL to expand their stories from linked URL. RT means retweeting and this is quoting another twitter message. It is usually done by writing message @, someone’s name, and original message. In this report we are going to describe the use of these three conventions in political messages v. non-political messages.
Total Messages
2757
Rights
Copyright 2010 Lauren Groeper, Emilie Lee, Hassanein Ahmed, and Alec Siglin
URL
http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/36