Predicting Tweet Retweetability During Hurricane Disasters

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Author(s): Venkata Kishore Neppalli (University of North Texas, USA), Cornelia Caragea (University of North Texas, USA), Doina Caragea (Kansas State University, USA), Murilo Cerqueira Medeiros (University of North Texas, USA), Andrea H. Tapia (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)and Shane E. Halse (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Emergency and Disaster Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6195-8.ch059

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Crisis Response and Management / Emergency & Disaster Management / Government & Law

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Twitter is a vital source for obtaining information, especially during events such as natural disasters. Users can spread information on Twitter either by crafting new posts, which are called “tweets,” or by using the retweet mechanism to re-post previously created tweets. During natural disasters, identifying how likely a tweet is to be retweeted is crucial since it can help promote the spread of useful information in a social network such as Twitter, as well as it can help stop the spread of misinformation when corroborated with approaches that identify rumors and misinformation. In this paper, we present an analysis of retweeted tweets from two different hurricane disasters, to identify factors that affect retweetability. We then use these factors to extract features from tweets' content and user account information in order to develop models that automatically predict the retweetability of a tweet. The results of our experiments on Sandy and Patricia Hurricanes show the effectiveness of our features.

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