Opening presentation of the 2nd Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (#diata12). Düsseldorf, March 21, 2012.

1. DIATA12
2nd Düsseldorf Workshop on
Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Twitter Analysis
(#diata12)
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
March 21, 2012
Organized by Katrin Weller & Cornelius Puschmann and the researchers group
„science and the internet“
http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/diata12

2. #DIATA12 = pre-conference workshop of #DGI2012
http://tiny.cc/dgi2012-programme

3. DIATA12 – statistics
Participants from 6 4 sessions +
countries discussion
8
8 presentations

4. DIATA12 – topics
Background: Twitter Corporate and political
Networks & structures
research in Düsseldorf communication
Legal issues User engagement Archiving

5. DIATA12 – organisation
• Hashtag: #diata12
More Twitter stuff:
• Tutorial at #dgi2012 (Thursday, 13:30-15:00)
• Different presentations at #dgi2012

6. Background: Science and the Internet
6 projects
8 persons
5 disciplines
1 overall topic
#NFGWIN
http://nfgwin.uni-
duesseldorf.de/

7. Background: Science and the Internet
The projects
Digital genres of Law and scientific
Educational beliefs
publication internet usage
Change of the
Citations in Web 2.0 3D environments
“Publication” concept

8. Background: Science and the Internet
Current activities
Doctoral class Media trainings
Courses
Guest for
lectures academic
staff
Conference: #cosci12 Work across subprojects
1-3 August Scientific
2012, Twitter
Düsseldorf usage

9. Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

10. Background: HHU-QUT Exchange
Metrics, Ethics,
and Soccer…

11. Background: DIATA11
DIATA11: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/diata11
Slides online: http://tiny.cc/diata11-slides

12. Twitter research in Düsseldorf
Current topics
Twitter in academia Twitter for teaching Citations on Twitter
TEPCO Discourse analytics Soccer and Twitter

13. Twitter in Academia

14. AcademicTwitter Usage
Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and
Measured? In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. View the
poster online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller/twitter-for-scientific-communication

15. Retweet-Networks over Time
Data from Digital Humanities Conference 2010 (7-10 July 2010), Source:: Puschmann, C., Weller, K., & Dröge, E. (2011). Studying Twitter
conversations as (dynamic) graphs: visualization and structural comparison. Presented at General Online Research, 14-16 March 2011,
Düsseldorf, Germany. Retrieved from http://ynada.com/posters/gor11.pdf.

16. Tweet Contents
Are tweets dealing with the scientific topics
of the conference? (RTs excluded)
2500
keineavailable
Not Angabe Nein
No Ja
Yes
Number of tweets
2000 155
1500
105 938
1000
1.002
500 953
308
0
#mla09
#mla09 #www2010
#www2010
Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der Twitter-
Kommunikation bei wisseschaftlichen Konferenzen. http://bit.ly/qKQ2Nd

17. “Citations” on Twitter?
Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and
Measured? In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. View the
poster online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller/twitter-for-scientific-communication

18. What is Highly Cited?

19. References to academic organizations
Users linking to Max Planck Gesellschaft
Top 50 users per category
1 private, individual
2 scientist
3 media
4 scientific institution
5 lobby, company
6 political
11 mpg
99 unclear
Ongoing project with Merja Mahrt , Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

20. Soccer & Twitter (project QUT & HHU)

21. Twitterleague

22. Recent Work: Twitterleague
Distribution of followers in 3 soccer leagues
(as of March 2012)
1600000
Bundesliga
1400000
Premier League
number of followers on rank n
1200000 A-League
1000000
800000
600000
400000
200000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
soccer team accounts ranked by followers

23. Twitterleague
German football clubs ranked by followers, 21.07.2011
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11
12 13 14
15 16
17 18

24. Twitterleague
German football clubs ranked by followers, 19.03.2012
= 2 1
1
1 3
6 = 2
= = 3
1
2 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2
= 3
8 9 10 11
12 13 14
15 16
17 18

25. 70000 @fcbayern_news
@BayMuenchen
@BVBDortmund09,
60000 @BVB
@werderbremen
@HSV
50000 @fckoeln
@FCSchalke04, @s04
@VfLBorussia
40000
@VfL_Wolfsburg
@Ichbin96,
@hannover96
@1_fc_nuernberg
30000
@HerthaBSC
@bayer04fussball
20000
@Rote_Teufel
@VfB
@sc_freiburg
10000
@Hoffenheim
@1FSVMainz05
0 @FCAugsburg
Jun 11 Jul 11 Aug 11 Sep 11 Oct 11 Nov 11 Dez 11 Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12

26. Verified accounts
As of July 2011:
Guess who‘s missing…
Now:
Sept. Oct. Dez. Jan.
2011 2011 2011 2012
Feb. Mar.
2012 2012

27. Bayern München

28. Bayern München

29. Bayern München
Source: http://universal-code.de/2012/03/20/fc-bayern-stern-des-netzwerks/

30. Difficulties with accounts and user names
was @BVBDortmund09 now @BVB
was @Ichbin96 now @hannover96
@bayer04fussball vs. @BayerLeverkusen
@FCSchalke04 @s04
@Werder_Bremen @werderbremen

31. Schalke 04

32. FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund
Number of followers.
16.000
@BVBDortmund09
14.000 1.21
@fckoeln
12.000
1.31
10.000
1.34
1.13
8.000
1.15
1.19
6.000
4.000
2.000
0
on 24.06.2011 on 21.07.2011 on 18.08.2011 on 13.09.2011

33. FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund
Average number of tweets per user (and per day) that mention a certain football team‘s account

34. Twitter supporting German soccer games

35. Twitter supporting German soccer games

36. Soccer on Twitter
Tonight:
Borussia Mönchengladbach vs. Bayern München (#dfbpokal)
Prediction: 2:2
then Borussia wins after penalties

37. Other current projects
Timo van Treeck:
Learning environments on Twitter
• MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
• #opco11 – Open Course „Zukunft des Lernens“, 2. May - 17. June
2011
• Over 900 registered participants
• 3.550 Tweets von 362 Twitter users, period 20. May until 26. July
2011
• Currently: #opco12
Interested?
Meet Timo van Treeck during DGI2012 poster session.

38. Other current projects
Agnes Mainka:
Research corpus of tweets for testing discourse analytics methods:
• Is it possible to automatically extract dialogues from Twitter?
• Is there a typical time span for Twitter dialogues?
Development of a method to automatically detect discourses on Twitter
with corpus linguistics.
• How successful is part of speech tagging?
Interested?
Agnes Mainka:
„Korpusbasierte Online-Dialoganalyse am Beispiel Twitter“
Session 11 at #dgi2012. Friday, March 23, 2012. 2.30 pm

39. Other current projects
Cornelius Puschmann:
Discourse cohesion in Twitter conversations in different
communities of interest

40. Other current projects
Ulrike Ezold
Tweeting during the crisis: How did the japanese energy company
TEPCO use twitter since the disaster on 11.03.2011?
Interested?
Ulrike Ezold:
„Krisengezwitscher: Wie nutzt der japanische Energiekonzern TEPCO
Twitter während der Fukushima-Katastrophe? “
Poster Session at #dgi2012. Thursday, March 22, 2012., 3 pm.

41. DIATA12 – workshop discussion
Pirate pad: http://tiny.cc/diata12
Aim for this workshop
Discussion on:
What types of methods are used to obtain certain results?
• Collect approaches
• Collect measures, metrics
• Collect aims
What problems are experienced:
• With data collection
• With data preparation

42. Welcome to Düsseldorf!
Dr. Katrin Weller Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Dept. of Information Science Dept. of English Language and Linguistics
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.21.04.68, Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.11.01.21
D-40225 Düsseldorf D-40225 Düsseldorf
E-Mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de E-Mail: cornelius.puschmann@uni-
duesseldorf.de
Twitter: @kwelle Twitter: @coffee001