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Getting Granular on Twitter:Tweets from a Conference and Their Limited Usefulness for
Non-participants
Martin Ebner, Herbert Mühlburger, Sandra Schaffert, Mandy Schiefner, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Steve Wheeler
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Increase ofdevices
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Mobile Learning?
http://flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/416206133/
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„Hence, learning materials must be designed for easy access by the nomadic learners during using mobile technology regardless of where they are located and which network
infrastructure they are using to access information“
Allen, 2007
Is microblogging a possibility for a specific community to exchange ideas, interests and
information?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vividbreeze/480057824
Microblogging is a small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both users and
business to share news, post status updates and carry on conversations Templeton, 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/601808418
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http://www.twitter.com
http://www.jaiku.com
http://www.pownce.com(down on December 15, 2008)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/1815164756/
http://www.plurk.comhttp://identi.ca/
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http://www.twitter.com
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What the hell is twitter?
- 140 character- from mobile, client or web interface- Followers- Direct messages- @Replies and Retweets- #Hashtags- Open API
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btw, thanks for the last slide to ...
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http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/twitter-microblogging-and-living-in-the-stream-presentation?type=powerpoint
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_to_have_fun_with_twitter.php
Daily Chatter
Templeton, 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/601808418
Communicator
Reporter
Exchanger
Different kind of people using microblogs
Java et al, 2007
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http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle
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Twitter ok, but how can we use it
for scientific conferences?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leapfrog_photo/2532068489
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Pre-studies – Use of Twitter at conferences
• ED-Media 2008
• Summer School 2008
• ED-Media 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haagsuitburo/2342058525
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Twitter stream beside keynote(ED-Media 2008)
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„in the background we discussed things more
deeply than the guys on the stage“
„Twitter can be distracting - you pay less attention“
versus
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Number of Tweets at ED-Media 2009
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„... top trend makers show who is the heartbeat of this online community and
the key terms pointed out, what the community was talking about“
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radekreks/316541927
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• for communication amongst participants
• for communication amongst organizers /presenters and audience
• for reporting to non-participants about the conference
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Research outcomes – Twitter can be used in the context of conferences:
Getting Granular on TwitterEbner, Mühlburger, Schaffert, Schiefner, Reinhardt, Wheeler
Research Question:
Is Twitter proper to report from a conference in order to share the event
with the scientific community from outside the conference?
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Study:
• Educamp Hamburg 2010 (barcamp; unconference)
• Twitter was monitored from 5.2 – 4.3.2010 (used Hashtag #ec10hh)
• In summary 2110 tweets were examined
• Two stage analysis – automatically and manually
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Four categories of Tweets:
• Irrelevant Tweets “Who found my drinking cup? #ec10hh”
• Administrative Tweets “Wifi is not available #ec10hh”
• Topical Discussions “nice idea of @estudyskills Aggregation of all student weblogs at Tumblelog gives overview”
• Topical Tweets “open-learning: initiative on OER usage for informal education: http://u.nu/4a7ya #ec10hh”
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Analyses of participants
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Categories of Tweets (manual analysis)
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Detailed Analysis of Tweets (manual analysis)
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Discussion
• Keyword extraction (automatically analysis) did not show any interesting result – no direct correlation
• In average each user posted 6 tweets during the conference period
• High number of Retweets (18%) – often not useful without the necessary context
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Main Outcome:
If we reduce the tweets to those occurring during the conference period
(5th and 6th February) only 120 posts are of interest at all, which relates to
about 6%
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Practically, the obviously limited usefulness of the tweets of the EduCamp participants for interested external participants evokes new ideas for practical and effective alternative usage of the tweets as well as the need for appropriate tools.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minaartwork/3695954155
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Interpretation – Twitter usage follows other logic:
• usage as backchannel with limited comprehension potential for outsiders
• usage of self promotion and profiling to generate attention for own profile
• documentation and illustrating connections
• usage as a public notepad
• usage as an evaluation tool
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Outlook:
How must a web-based application that can also be used offline (without Internet connection) for information retrieval and knowledge discovery based on a micro-content system like
Twitter look like?
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http://grabeeter.tugraz.at
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Archive and
Searchoffline
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• Micro-content (tweets) is achievable due to the fact that any tweet can be retrieved at anytime from a local hard-drive
• Micro-content is storable in a way that the user can distinguish between different events
• Micro-content is searchable along keywords, hashtags, time frames as well as different entities (URLs, @, ... )
Grabeeter allows ...
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Microblogging as potential
for the future
http://www.flickr.com/photos/161/
- if we see it as a newcommunication
channel
SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Grab and Search your Tweetshttp://grabeeter.tugraz.at
Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
mebner
martin.ebner@tugraz.at