Questions and humour the keys to social media success Researcher finds linguistic tricks that boost Facebook post engagement Some Facebook posts are more successful than others and linguist Matteo Farina has worked out why. By applying a technique known as “Conversation Analysis” to a set of more than 1,200 posts culled from 266 anonymised users,…
Public Twitter data can predict flu outbreaks, according to researchers at the University of Adelaide. They’ve used public Twitter data to better predict when the flu season will peak and how bad it will be. Dr Lewis Mitchell, who co-authored the research, says they found there was a positive relationship between retweets of news articles…
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