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Everything about Microblogging
Social network with short posts
Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", which may be the major reason for their popularity. Some popular social networks such as X, Threads, Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky can be viewed as collections of microblogs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MicrobloggingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Stock Market Prediction Using Microblogging Sentiment Analysis and Machine LearningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: DoomedThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Studying political microblogging: Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaignCited 362 times
- Go sideways: Micro.blogA closely related topic
- Go sideways: PownceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of microblog
Noun The writing or publishing of a microblog.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Studying political microblogging: Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign
Does Twitter matter? The impact of microblogging word of mouth on consumers’ adoption of new movies
The impact of microblogging data for stock market prediction: Using Twitter to predict returns, volatility, trading volume and survey sentiment indices
Tweeting for learning: A critical analysis of research on microblogging in education published in 2008–2011
Social Media Affordances for Connective Action: An Examination of Microblogging Use During the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill1
Microblogging, Constituency Service and Impression Management: UK MPs and the Use of Twitter
Public microblogging on climate change: One year of Twitter worldwide
The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms
🆕 Influential since 2022
Stock Market Prediction Using Microblogging Sentiment Analysis and Machine Learning
Sentiment change and negative herding: Evidence from microblogging and news
Microblogging Replies and Opinion Polarization: A Natural Experiment
Transformer-based models for combating rumours on microblogging platforms: a review
What to post? Understanding engagement cultivation in microblogging with big data-driven theory building
📚 Books worth reading
DoomedChuck Palahniuk · 2013
The SubtweetVivek Shraya · 2020
Twitter in 30 minutesIan Lamont · 2013
TumblrKatrin Tiidenberg, Crystal Abidin · 2021
Social Computing and the LawKhurshid Ahmad · 2018- 📕Getting Started with Twitter FlightTom Hamshere · 2013
Micro-blogging MemoriesEileen Le Han · 2016- 📕Microblogs GlobalTorsten Siever, Peter Schlobinski · 2013
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