作者: Palakorn Achananuparp , David Lo , Ee-Peng Lim , Yuan Tian , Ibrahim Nelman Lubis
关键词: Dissemination 、 Microblogging 、 Software analytics 、 Social media 、 Software engineering 、 World Wide Web 、 Popularity 、 Software as a service 、 Computer science 、 Software development 、 Information Dissemination 、 Software
摘要: Microblogging is a new trend to communicate and disseminate information. One microblog post could potentially reach millions of users. Millions microblogs are generated on daily basis popular sites such as Twitter. The popularity microblogging among programmers, software engineers, users has also led their use engineering issues apart from using emails other traditional communication channels. Understanding how in related activities would shed light ways we leverage the fast evolving content aid development efforts. In this work, perform preliminary study what community about. We analyze Twitter categorize types that posted. investigate relative each category microblogs. kinds diffused more widely network via "retweet" feature. Our experiments show commonly contain job openings, news, questions answers, or links download tools code. find concerning real-world events network.