Role of Twitter in Bin Laden Death Reporting Examined

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External News Details

Mengdie Hu (Interactive Computing) has studied how reliable Twitter was as a news source using the Bin Laden killing as a test case. To find out, researchers examined 400,000 tweets sent in a two-hour period starting just minutes before Urbahn's infamous tweet. Source: Marketplace Tech Report

Additional Information

Groups

College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

Categories
Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Digital Media and Entertainment
Keywords
Mengdie Hu; John Stasko; Twitter; bin Laden; News; Study; Research
Status
  • Created By: Michaelanne Dye
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: May 1, 2012 - 8:19am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:25pm