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On Twitter, hashtags allow users to gather around a topic in a digital space, something that has been common since early IRC and internet chat rooms. However there are three important differences when gathering on Twitter: persistence, invitation, and device independence. In this paper, we search for patterns in these digital spaces through the use of visualization to explore the temporal rhythms that emerge.
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Huston, C., Weiss, M. (2011). Gathering in Digital Spaces: Exploring Topical Communities on Twitter. In: Datta, A., Shulman, S., Zheng, B., Lin, SD., Sun, A., Lim, EP. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24704-0_39
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