tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999686744433629981.post8835594139278058608..comments2024-02-14T22:06:08.851-08:00Comments on Augmented Social Cognition Research Blog from PARC: Want to be Retweeted? Add Hashtags to Your Tweets!Ed H. Chihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06360447323238002978noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999686744433629981.post-29523772774887551022010-08-20T13:59:44.780-07:002010-08-20T13:59:44.780-07:00Since users must see the tweet in order to retweet...Since users must see the tweet in order to retweet it, we know that they read the hashtag before they retweeted.<br /><br />So the question is whether they retweet due to the inclusion of hashtags, or whether it is something more indirect. For example, maybe users who understand hashtags (more experienced) are more likely to retweet?Ed H. Chihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06360447323238002978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999686744433629981.post-46968691968336622482010-08-20T09:58:23.469-07:002010-08-20T09:58:23.469-07:00Michael, you are absolutely right that there is a ...Michael, you are absolutely right that there is a big distinction between correlation and causation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation). What we have observed in this study is simply a correlation.<br /><br />We view retweets as a social voting proxy. This is mostly due to the difficulties of capturing the feeling of "I'm glad I saw this!" Our ultimate objective is to understand why some tweets got retweeted, while others didn't.Lichan Honghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06753803865534624244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4999686744433629981.post-46457399933883271882010-08-19T20:56:25.682-07:002010-08-19T20:56:25.682-07:00Nice stuff. We're treading on difficult correl...Nice stuff. We're treading on difficult correlation vs. causation ground here, though, aren't we? Even the title of your blog post suggests that if I add a hashtag, my post is more likely to get retweeted -- but what we're really seeing here is more a correlation.<br /><br />The nice thing about retweets is that they give us a nice proxy for how much someone values a tweet. I wonder how much overlap there is with a feeling of "I'm glad I saw this!", and what it might not capture? But, obviously, you get the benefit of a huge dataset by doing it this way.Michael Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00724371685939512024noreply@blogger.com