Quantifying Collective Attention from Tweet Stream
Figure 4
Examples of strong collective attention.
Tweet probability distribution, and the rankings of the popularity and the enhancement of key terms in Japanese tweets on (A) March 11, 2011 and (B) July 18, 2011. The collective attention in (A) was associated with the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami, whereas that in (B) was associated with the FIFA Women's World Cup, 2011. The black bars in the figures indicate the time period when the posted tweets were analyzed to compute term frequency. The red text in the tables denotes terms related to the target events and the text in parentheses shows the English translation.