{"id":1574,"date":"2014-04-11T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T09:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:32","slug":"8-years-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/04\/11\/8-years-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"8 years of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark 8 years in existance,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2014\/on-twitters-8th-birthday-find-your-first-tweet\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0launched the facility to look back in time and trace your first tweet. \u00a0 It has posted online some amusing examples from famous celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/03\/how-twitter-has-changed-over-the-years-in-12-charts\/359869\/\">Atlantic\u00a0<\/a>has\u00a0a useful article mapping trends in time.\u00a0 It is based on an academic paper:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccs.neu.edu\/home\/amislove\/publications\/Profiles-ICWSM.pdf\">The\u00a0Tweets They are a-Changin\u2019: Evolution of Twitter Users and Behavior\u00a0<\/a>by\u00a0Yabing \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Liuy, Chloe Kliman-Silverz and Alan Mislove<\/p>\n<p>To read more academic on Twitter try the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/2014\/02\/20\/mapping-twitter-topic-networks-from-polarized-crowds-to-community-clusters\/\">Pew and American Life<\/a>\u00a0project website which has examined\u00a0usage of online communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twopcharts.com\/\">Twopcharts<\/a>\u00a0has some up-to-date data\u00a0which track Twitter users by language and by city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark 8 years in existance,\u00a0Twitter\u00a0launched the facility to look back in time and trace your first tweet. \u00a0 It has posted online some amusing examples from famous celebrities. The\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0has\u00a0a useful article mapping trends in time.\u00a0 It is based on an academic paper:\u00a0The\u00a0Tweets They are a-Changin\u2019: Evolution of Twitter Users and Behavior\u00a0by\u00a0Yabing \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Liuy, Chloe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35,61,241,71,82],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-communication","tag-internet","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}