[Sigia-l] How do you perceive Tweets?

Jonathan Baker-Bates jonathan at bakerbates.com
Tue Apr 23 08:32:42 EDT 2013


Depends how you perceive tweets - which I suppose is what the research is
looking at. It never occurred to me to group them according to whether they
had links, images or re-tweets. I went for "frivolous", "actionable" and
"informative" myself. So that's how I perceive tweets, perhaps.


On 17 April 2013 14:17, Paola Kathuria <paola at limov.com> wrote:

> On 17 Apr 2013, at 10:47, Isabella Peters <
> Isabella.Peters at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> > Participate in our study and find out if you are a lemming or a lonesome
> > wolf:
> >
> > <http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~jhunz/experiment/>
> > http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~jhunz/experiment/
> >
> > Our experiment is about Twitter. By participating in our experiment, you
> > will find out how you perceive the content of tweets.
>
>
> I'd be interested to know the reason and rationale of this experiment.
>
> The method implies that there is a grouping - won't that bias the results?
> Also, since grouping tweets is not something people do, won't the obvious
> thing be to group tweets with links, images, retweets? And, if that is what
> you get in the results, what does that say about tweets?
>
>
> Paola
>
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