Decentralized influencers: How opinion leaders on Twitter (X) shape the Bitcoin discussion
Bitcoin has made global headlines in recent years, with a significant portion of the cryptocurrency discourse taking place on Twitter, ...
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Twitter analysis shows users in states affected by hurricanes discuss climate change up to 200 percent more frequently in the weeks immediately post-hurricane
Twitter users in areas affected by major hurricanes discussed climate change much more frequently right after the hurricane, according to ...
AI recommendation vs. user subscription: analyzing in-feed digital advertising performance on platforms like Twitter, Google News, and TikTok
Researchers from Lehigh University, University of Hong Kong, and Wuhan University published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines in-feed advertising’s performance across ...
Nearly 50% of environmentalists abandoned Twitter following Musk’s takeover
In October 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter (recently renamed X), which had previously served as the leading social media platform ...
Rise of malicious bots: how automatons shake up Twitter with earthquake conspiracies
Earthquakes, resulting from the collision of tectonic plates, are widely recognized as natural occurrences, and extensive scientific knowledge exists in ...
Medical dramas influence thoughts on dangers from vaping, new Twitter analysis reveals
After three popular primetime medical dramas included storylines about health harms from using e-cigarettes, hundreds of people took to Twitter ...
Fake and extremely biased Twitter content decreased between 2016-2020, but top influencers were more polarized
“One side can start the polarization and keep it going forever, but it takes two sides to stop it. That’s ...
Toxic Twitter abuse could skew UK wildlife law
Wildlife conservation efforts could suffer because toxic online rows about trophy hunting are becoming increasingly abusive, ecologists have warned. Scientists ...
When election winners are announced, their Twitter supporters respond quicker, are more engaged and use less toxic language than supporters of the losing candidate, according to analysis in the US, UK, Brazil and Argentina
When election winners are announced, their Twitter supporters respond quicker, are more engaged and use less toxic language than supporters ...
Exposure to Russian Twitter campaigns in 2016 presidential race highly concentrated, largely limited to strongly partisan Republicans
Russian Twitter campaigns during the 2016 presidential race primarily reached a small subset of users, most of whom were highly ...
Exploring perceptions of faces paired with fake news on Twitter
In experiments using made-up tweets, participants rated the trustworthiness of faces paired with positive news headlines more highly than faces ...
Most Twitter users don’t follow political elites, researchers suggest
While social media platforms are the primary source of political information for a growing number of people, a majority of ...
Twitter shows lower-to-middle income countries have higher unemployment post pandemic
TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2022 – Lower-to-middle-income countries still struggle with high unemployment rates after COVID-19 lockdowns and economic restrictions, unlike higher-income ...
Researchers track twitter to learn what people valued in New York City parks after COVID-19 pandemic
North Carolina State University researchers found they could use Twitter to understand changes in what New York City park users ...
Twitter health amplifiers combat COVID-19 misinformation
CHICAGO --- At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when false information about the virus began to spread on Twitter, ...
Over 40,000 Twitter users used pandemic misinformation hashtags “Scamdemic” or “Plandemic” in 2020 in over 220,000 tweets – and a fifth of these accounts were suspended by Twitter by January 2021
Over 40,000 Twitter users used pandemic misinformation hashtags "Scamdemic" or "Plandemic" in 2020 in over 220,000 tweets - and a ...
Tweeting a help wanted Sign: Carnegie Mellon University research shows Twitter drives popularity, contributors to open-source software
Want to be popular with lots of friends? Get out there and tweet. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Want to be ...
Online sentiment about vaccines previews later vaccination rates, new Twitter study finds
Sentiments toward COVID-19 vaccines, whether positive or negative, previews subsequent vaccination rates, finds a study of related Twitter posts. The ...
American politicians have become less civil on Twitter over time, new study confirms
Members of Congress in the United States are less civil on Twitter now than they were at the start of ...
Twitter sentiment around vaping went from broadly positive to mostly negative during the pandemic, probably because of risks of vaping for COVID-19 infection
Twitter sentiment around vaping went from broadly positive to mostly negative during the pandemic, probably because of risks of vaping ...
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