Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Hansen , Shneiderman , Smith (2010-09-10), Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World, Morgan Kaufmann, Burlington, MA, Retrieved on 2011-01-12
Folksonomies: web science social networking nodexl network analysis Memes
12 JAN 2011
Twitter, Celebrity, Asymmetric and Symmetric Social Conne...
Asymmetric attention is the key to another important concept, celebrity. Being famous means that a lot of people pay attention to you--after all, by definition it is famous people who appear on the cover of magazines, which are purchased because lots of people want to know what's happening with their favorite celebrities. But the celebrity doesn't, for the the most part, pay any attention to the fans (at least, not individually). Asymmetric attention ties in Twitter allows people like Oprah W...Folksonomies: web science social networking
Folksonomies: web science social networking
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Twitter provides for asymmetric connections, where individuals follow others, making the people who don't follow back are celebrities; however, the system has been hacked with @replies, which make asymmetric connections symmetrical.
