Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.

Recent years have witnessed the tremendous growth of the online social media. In China, Weibo, a Twitter-like service, has attracted more than 500 million users in less than five years. Connected by online social ties, different users might share similar affective states. We find that the correlatio...

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Autores principales: Rui Fan, Jichang Zhao, Yan Chen, Ke Xu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4867911adfa848d79cc27a060f6e96de2021-11-25T05:56:29ZAnger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0110184https://doaj.org/article/4867911adfa848d79cc27a060f6e96de2014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110184https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Recent years have witnessed the tremendous growth of the online social media. In China, Weibo, a Twitter-like service, has attracted more than 500 million users in less than five years. Connected by online social ties, different users might share similar affective states. We find that the correlation of anger among users is significantly higher than that of joy. While the correlation of sadness is surprisingly low. Moreover, there is a stronger sentiment correlation between a pair of users if they share more interactions. And users with larger number of friends possess more significant sentiment correlation with their neighborhoods. Our findings could provide insights for modeling sentiment influence and propagation in online social networks.Rui FanJichang ZhaoYan ChenKe XuPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 10, p e110184 (2014)
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Rui Fan
Jichang Zhao
Yan Chen
Ke Xu
Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
description Recent years have witnessed the tremendous growth of the online social media. In China, Weibo, a Twitter-like service, has attracted more than 500 million users in less than five years. Connected by online social ties, different users might share similar affective states. We find that the correlation of anger among users is significantly higher than that of joy. While the correlation of sadness is surprisingly low. Moreover, there is a stronger sentiment correlation between a pair of users if they share more interactions. And users with larger number of friends possess more significant sentiment correlation with their neighborhoods. Our findings could provide insights for modeling sentiment influence and propagation in online social networks.
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author Rui Fan
Jichang Zhao
Yan Chen
Ke Xu
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Jichang Zhao
Yan Chen
Ke Xu
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title Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
title_short Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
title_full Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
title_fullStr Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
title_full_unstemmed Anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
title_sort anger is more influential than joy: sentiment correlation in weibo.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2014
url https://doaj.org/article/4867911adfa848d79cc27a060f6e96de
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