Urban Twitter Networks and Communities: A Case Study of Microblogging in Athens
This research provides insights into the structure and characteristics of online communities for urban planners and social scientists.
This paper analyzes Twitter data associated with a city-level hashtag in Athens, Greece, to understand the network and community formed by its users. The analysis suggests that the Twitter community exhibits strong characteristics of a real-life community.
This paper examines the community formed by the Twitter users that used a city-level hashtag. In particular, we provide a network perspective of the city of Athens, Greece, as demonstrated by the analysis and visualization of the relevant Twitter hashtag data, in order to present both an overview and deeper insights at the microblogging practices of this geographic local network. Further analysis suggests that the Twitter community defined by the members of the network shows strong signs of a real-life community.