Comparison of Indicators of Location Homophily Using Twitter Follow Graph

Hironaka, Shiori; Yoshida, Mitsuo; Umemura, Kyoji

doi:10.1109/icaicta53211.2021.9640257

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“…The studied Media started following a majority of Spanish accounts in the three years of the study, in the same line with their Directors, presenting homophilous tendencies regarding their location, supporting theories that postulate the tendency of Twitter users to follow accounts from the same or close regions (Shiori Hironaka;Mitsuo Yoshida;Kyoji Umemura, 2021). Twitter´s platform has a global scale, and one of the reasons why it has been considered as a democratization enhancer (Shirky, 2008) is that it dissolves geographical boundaries (Anduiza, Cantijoch and Gallego, 2009).…”

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Citizenship or political? The Twitter accounts that the Media and their Directors started to follow

Israel-Turim

Micó

2022

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Digital platforms have transformed the influence streams among media, journalists, politicians and the citizenship, as well as concerning gatekeeping and agenda setting (Guo and Vargo, 2017; Wallace, 2018; Casero-Ripollés, 2021). Nonetheless, homophilic tendencies among power groups continue to be reproduced online (McPherson, Smith-Lovin and Cook, 2001; Maares, Lind and Greussing, 2021). With the objective of contributing to the deepening of the understanding of the dynamics and influence flows online among power elites, we analyzed via a machine learning Software, the 50 accounts that the network of the most followed Media Directors in Spain began following and compared them with the accounts that the Media they manage started following. We categorized them in Types of accounts, Location and Gender, and analyzed the repetitions between the accounts they began to follow to subsequently work with data visualization methods in order to find trends and tendencies (Bail, 2014; Batrinca and Treleaven, 2015). The results of this research indicate that some patterns of behavior differ between both networks, such as the gender and types of accounts they began following, whereas the location presented similar trends. The year where we can see the highest similarities corresponds to 2018, an electoral year in Spain, where both networks started following a majority of Spanish male politicians.

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Citizenship or political? The Twitter accounts that the Media and their Directors started to follow

Israel-Turim

Micó

2022

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Follower–Followee Ratio Category and User Vector for Analyzing Following Behavior

Oshimo

Hironaka

Yoshida

et al. 2022

2022 9th International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA)

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Analyzing following behavior is important in many applications. Following behavior may depend on the main intention of the follower. Users may either follow their friends or they may follow celebrities to know more about them. It is difficult to estimate users' intention from their following relationships. In this paper, we propose an approach to analyze following relationships. First, we investigated the similarity between users. Similar followers and followees are likely to be friends. However, when the follower and followee are not similar, it is likely that follower seeks to obtain more information on the followee. Second, we categorized users by the network structure. We then proposed analysis of following behavior based on similarity and category of users estimated from tweets and user data. We confirmed the feasibility of the proposed method through experiments. Finally, we examined users in different categories and analyzed their following behavior.

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Homophily and Sentiment Analysis for Political Issues Related Discussions in Twitter

Parmar,

Patel,

Farooqui

2024

2024 4th International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems (ICSES)

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Comparison of Indicators of Location Homophily Using Twitter Follow Graph

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Citizenship or political? The Twitter accounts that the Media and their Directors started to follow

Citizenship or political? The Twitter accounts that the Media and their Directors started to follow

Follower–Followee Ratio Category and User Vector for Analyzing Following Behavior

Homophily and Sentiment Analysis for Political Issues Related Discussions in Twitter

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