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Why mentions on Twitter help people communicate
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012 Twitter mentions help users communicate and give more visibility to the one mentioned. The mention format is the Twitter username (handle),...
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Tweet me a URL and make your communication richer
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: URLs Some of the previous studies suggested that URLs in tweets are a sign of engagement given the URL purpose to provide additional...
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Retweeting as a means of taking part in a wider conversation
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Retweets A retweet (RT) is a powerful Twitter function that enables republishing another user’s message on the Twitter platform. A RT is...
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Giving credit on Twitter
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Favourited tweets and replies Favouriting a tweet is a Twitter function copied from a browser menu (options), when favouriting or bookmarking...
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Measuring Twitter engagement: An example
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Engagement Listening to the followers and engaging with them is a key action towards understanding what they say and want. The “engagement...
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Subjects communicated by the European Commission’s EMPL on Twitter in 2012
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Communication subjects All tweets published by the three account holders, the subjects of this research project, namely Social Europe, EURes...
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Communication trending topics on Twitter
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Trending topics Identifying the trending topics of the communications managed by the three account holders on Twitter in 2012 started with...
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Twitter linguistic patterns
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Linguistic patterns As mentioned in the previous articles, I used LIWC as one of the software tools to establish the linguistic patterns...
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How to measure Twitter content polarity
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Positivity index Scholars advise identifying the emotional value that is carried by the content itself while doing a content analysis. In the...
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Twitter, an incentive to keep communications going
The European Commission’s EMPL presence on Twitter in 2012: Conclusions Introduction This set of articles reports on the 2012 Twitter communications of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for...
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