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Flickr and Twitter Data Analysis

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Content and opinion social network applications

Glossary

Flickr:

A multimedia sharing social networking platform aiming at enhancing content retrieval for Web users

Twitter:

A microblogging platform enabling its users to send and read messages known as tweets

Definition

Twitter, which is an online microblogging service, and Flickr, which is an online image and video hosting service, are two very popular social networking applications for sharing and disseminating content and users’ opinions.

Introduction

Flickr constitutes one of the largest worldwide sources of published images and videos. Flickr users can make comments, generate annotations (via tags), and search and access multimedia content of their interest. Multimedia content tagging is a valuable practice that facilitates tasks that are relevant to the contents of the multimedia resources.

Twitterenables users to post and send short, concise messages (of totally 140 characters) that are visible and available publicly,...

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Athena Vakali

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Management, Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Przemysław Kazienko

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

    Jaroslaw Jankowski

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Vakali, A. (2017). Flickr and Twitter Data Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_234-1

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