TY - JOUR
T1 - Analyzing user behavior of the micro-blogging website Sina Weibo during hot social events
AU - Guan, Wanqiu
AU - Gao, Haoyu
AU - Yang, Mingmin
AU - Li, Yuan
AU - Ma, Haixin
AU - Qian, Weining
AU - Cao, Zhigang
AU - Yang, Xiaoguang
PY - 2014/2/1
Y1 - 2014/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Demographic characteristics
KW - Hot social events
KW - Micro-blogging
KW - Sina Weibo
KW - Social networking service
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84889889235
U2 - 10.1016/j.physa.2013.09.059
DO - 10.1016/j.physa.2013.09.059
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:84889889235
SN - 0378-4371
VL - 395
SP - 340
EP - 351
JO - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
JF - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
ER -