Opening presentation for Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (#diata11). 14./15. September 2011, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Includes background information for current projects and research groups as well as first results from analysing tweets by scholars and by soccer teams.

1. DIATA11
Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Twitter Analysis
(#diata11)
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
September 14 and 15, 2011
http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/diata11

2. DIATA11
Participants from 10
5 sessions
countries
14
14 presentations

3. DIATA11
Keynote: Mapping Metrics and Politics and
Online Publics Measurement eParticipation
Scholarship and Semantics and Communities and
Journalism Sentiment Conversations

4. DIATA11
Organisation
• Talks cancelled:
– Lorna Richardson about “Public Archaeology and Twitter – Widening
the Debate in 140 Characters or Less”
– Christopher Mascaro about “Uncovering Subgroups Among the
Masses”
• Piratepad:http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.VNsL5lTCUCy/latest
• Piratepad from Coding Session:
http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.gW4QsVx9XYM/latest
• Hashtag: #diata11

5. DIATA11
Tonight: Dinner at Füchschen Brewery
http://www.fuechschen.de/

6. Background: Science and the Internet
6 projects
8 persons
5 disciplines
1 overall topic
#NFGWIN
http://nfgwin.uni-
duesseldorf.de/en/node

7. Background: Science and the Internet
The projects
Digital genres of Law and scientific
Educational beliefs
publication internet usage
Change of the
Citations in Web 2.0 3D environments
“Publication” concept

8. Background: Science and the Internet
Current activities
Doctoral class Media trainings
Courses
Guest for
lectures academic
staff
Conference Work across subprojects
August Scientific
2012, Twitter
Düsseldorf usage

9. Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

10. Background: HHU-QUT Exchange
2 Twitter Workshops in Brisbane, June 2011
http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/201
http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/progra
1/07/27/looking-back-at-the-world-
m/workshops/workshop-c/
according-to-twitter/#more-747
The World According to Making Sense of Twitter:
Quantitative Analysis Using
Twitter Twapperkeeper and Other Tools

11. Background: HHU-QUT Exchange
Metrics, Ethics,
and Soccer…

12. Recent Work: Scientific Twitter Usage
Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and
Measured? In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. View the
poster online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller/twitter-for-scientific-communication

13. Retweet-Networks over Time
Data from Digital Humanities Conference 2010 (7-10 July 2010), Source:: Puschmann, C., Weller, K., & Dröge, E. (2011). Studying Twitter
conversations as (dynamic) graphs: visualization and structural comparison. Presented at General Online Research, 14-16 March 2011,
Düsseldorf, Germany. Retrieved from http://ynada.com/posters/gor11.pdf.

14. Tweet Contents
Are tweets dealing with the scientific topics
of the conference? (RTs excluded)
2500
keine Angabe Nein Ja
Number of tweets
2000 Not available
155 No Yes
1500
105 938
1000
1.002
500 953
308
0
#mla09
#mla09 #www2010
#www2010
Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der Twitter-
Kommunikation bei wisseschaftlichen Konferenzen. http://bit.ly/qKQ2Nd

15. “Citations” on Twitter?

16. What is Highly Cited?

17. Recent Work: Twitterleague
21. June 2011

18. FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund
Number of followers.
16.000
@BVBDortmund09
14.000 1.21
@fckoeln
12.000
1.31
10.000
1.34
1.13
8.000
1.15
1.19
6.000
4.000
2.000
0
on 24.06.2011 on 21.07.2011 on 18.08.2011 on 13.09.2011

19. FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund
Average number of tweets per user (and per day) that mention a certain football team‘s account

20. Köln vs. Dortmund
„Lieber Herr
„Dear Gunners“
Solbakken“
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuimbkioYt0 http://www.fc-
koeln.de/news/club/detailansicht/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=
3849&cHash=5ec860877888e1f1ceb77e74e9a820fa

21. Welcome to Düsseldorf!
Dr. Katrin Weller Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Dept. of Information Science Dept. of English Language and Linguistics
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.21.04.68, Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.11.01.21
D-40225 Düsseldorf D-40225 Düsseldorf
E-Mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de E-Mail: cornelius.puschmann@uni-
duesseldorf.de
Twitter: @kwelle Twitter: @coffee001