Intro:
- Functional utterances → vowels → consonants → speech → ... → social media
The 3V:
- Volume (high volume).
- Velocity (very fast).
- Variety (massive variety).
Social media sites:
- Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
Networks:
- Represented as nodes in a common graph. One node = one person (now all sorts of computer bots).
- Relations are edges
Twitter:
- Allows subscription to interesting accounts.
- Anyone can post.
- Hashtags, mentions.
- Following/follower relationship is typically not bi-directional (77.6% are not reciprocated).
Linguistic processing:
- General challenges.
- Documents are short.
- Spelling errors.
- Non standard items and patterns.
Qualitative genre description:
- They are not illiterate: they embrace their dialects and accents.
- Lengthening.