{"id":231,"date":"2011-02-24T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larica.uniurb.it\/sigsna\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-02-24T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:40:13","slug":"what-if-twitter-wasnt-the-fastest-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"What if Twitter wasn't the fastest one…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Italiano<\/a>] We have recently done some comparative analysis between Twitter propagation dynamics and FriendFeed propagation dynamics. We chose, as our case study, the news related to the rescue operations of the San Jos\u00e8 mining accident<\/a> (that left 33 men trapped 700 metres (2,300 ft) below ground for 69 days) [I’m not describing the research now, we have a paper under submission.. so stay tuned for more about the research itself].
\nAs a side product of this research we had the opportunity to monitor the audience exposed to the miner’s rescue news both on Friendfeed and on Twitter. We were therefore able to observe how fast a specific news spreaded through both the networsk and, since we are observing the same news, we can assume that different propagation speeds can be related to the different propagation mechanisms taking place into the two systems.
\nEven considering the huge difference in absolute numbers (Twitter has a larger number of users) the line of FriendFeed based propagation (Esposti FF<\/em>) is steeper and shows a less linear progression than Twitter’s line (Esposti TW<\/em>).
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\nThis seems to suggest that a propagation based largely on the interactions made by the people you follow is faster than a propagation based mostly on explicit re-sharing practices (ReTweets).[English<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Come effetto collaterale di una ricerca che abbiamo da poco concluso sulla propagazione online delle news relative al salvataggio dei minatori chileni intrappolati nella miniera di San Jose<\/a> abbiamo potuto verificare la velocit\u00e0 di propagazione di una notizia all’interno del network di Friendfeed e di Twitter. Dato che la notizia di partenza era la stessa possiamo ipotizzare che le differenze di propagazione osservate siano imputabili ai meccanismi di propagazione dei due sitstemi. Anche tenendo in considerazione l’enorme differenza in termini numerici la curva della propagazione di FriendFeed appare molto pi\u00f9 ripida e meno lineare di quella di Twitter.
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Questa differenza sembrerebbe indicare come un meccanismo di propagazine basato sulle interazioni dei propri contatti (come avviene su FriendFeed) piuttosto che su esplicite pratiche di propagazione risulti essere pi\u00f9 efficace dal punto di vista della velocit\u00e0.\n<\/p>\n

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[Italiano] We have recently done some comparative analysis between Twitter propagation dynamics and FriendFeed propagation dynamics. We chose, as our case study, the news related to the rescue operations of the San Jos\u00e8 mining accident (that left 33 men trapped 700 metres (2,300 ft) below ground for 69 days) [I’m not describing the research now, … Continua a leggere What if Twitter wasn't the fastest one…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1],"tags":[12,24,38,43,48,54,59],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights","category-methodology","category-uncategorized","tag-chile","tag-friendfeed","tag-miners","tag-propagation","tag-sigsna","tag-speed","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigsna.uniurb.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}