Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guan, Wanqiu
• Gao, Haoyu
• Yang, Mingmin
• Li, Yuan
• Ma, Haixin
• Qian, Weining
• Cao, Zhigang
• Yang, Xiaoguang

Titel

Analyzing user behavior of the micro-blogging website Sina Weibo during hot social events

Ist Teil von

• Physica A, 2014-02, Vol.395, p.340-351

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The spread and resonance of users’ opinions on Sina Weibo, the most popular micro-blogging website in China, are tremendously influential, having significantly affected the processes of many real-world hot social events. We select 21 hot events that were widely discussed on Sina Weibo in 2011, and do some statistical analyses. Our main findings are that (i) male users are more likely to be involved, (ii) messages that contain pictures and those posted by verified users are more likely to be reposted, while those with URLs are less likely, (iii) the gender factor, for most events, presents no significant difference in reposting likelihood. •Male users are more likely to talk about hot social events.•Picture-containing weibos are more likely to be reposted.•URL-containing weibos are less likely to be reposted.•Weibos posted by verified users are more likely to be reposted.