Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2016

Abstract

We investigate the influence of offline friendship in three specific areas of Twitter networking behaviors: (a) network structure, (b) Twitter content and (c) interaction on Twitter. We observe some interesting findings through the empirical analysis of 2193 pairs of users who are online friends. When these pairs of users know each other offline, they are more likely to (1) respond to the online gesture of friendship from their friend, (2) share mutual online friends, (3) distribute and gather information in their friend’s Twitter network, (4) pay attention to their friend’s tweets, (5) post tweets that might be of interest to their friend, (6) post tweets similar to their friend’s, (7) respond to their friend’s tweet, (8) mention their friend in tweets, and (9) distribute their friend’s tweets. Overall, offline friendship drives social networking activities on Twitter.

Keywords

Networking behavior, Social network, Online friendship, Offline friendship, Social network services, Twitter

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Social Media

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering; Information Systems and Management

Publication

Proceedings of the 2016 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, January 5-9

First Page

736

Last Page

745

ISBN

9780769556703

Identifier

10.1109/HICSS.2016.97

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

City or Country

Los Alamitos, CA

Copyright Owner and License

LARC

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2016.97

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