Monday, March 31, 2014

How Twitter Has Changed Over the Years in 12 Charts - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

How Twitter Has Changed Over the Years in 12 Charts - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic: But each Twitter user sees the service through his or her own tiny window of followers and followed. It's hard to tell if everyone's behavior is changing, or just that of one's subset of the social network. Now, new research from Yabing Liu and Alan Mislove of Northwestern with Brown's Chloe Kliman-Silver attempts to quantify the way tweeting has changed through the years.

"Twitter is known to have evolved significantly since its founding," they write, "And it remains unclear how much the user base and behavior has evolved, whether prior results still hold, and whether the (often implicit) assumptions of proposed systems are still valid."

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