December 2009
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"Why we twitter: understanding Microblogging usage...
One year and a half ago I spent lot of times reading those foundational papers about Web Information Retrieval where first analysis of usage on search engines (main information retrieval systems for Web) were performed.
Those papers showed that the average user on the web search for information in a very different way, hardly describing their goals, visiting few alternatives and spending not much...