Tweeting your destiny: profiling users in the twitter landscape around an online game

Günter Wallner; Simone Kriglstein; Anders Drachen

doi:10.1109/CIG.2019.8848079

Tweeting your destiny: profiling users in the twitter landscape around an online game

Günter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein, Anders Drachen

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Social media has become a major communication channel for communities centered around video games. Consequently, social media offers a rich data source to study online communities and the discussions evolving around games. Towards this end, we explore a large-scale dataset consisting of over 1 million tweets related to the online multiplayer shooter Destiny and spanning a time period of about 14 months using unsupervised clustering and topic modelling. Furthermore, we correlate Twitter activity of over 3,000 players with their playtime. Our results contribute to the understanding of online player communities by identifying distinct player groups with respect to their Twitter characteristics, describing subgroups within the Destiny community, and uncovering broad topics of community interest.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Titel	2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)
Plaats van productie	Piscataway
Uitgeverij	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Aantal pagina's	8
ISBN van elektronische versie	978-1-7281-1884-0
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848079
Status	Gepubliceerd - aug. 2019
Evenement	2019 IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019 - London, Verenigd Koninkrijk Duur: 20 aug. 2019 → 23 aug. 2019

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Congres	2019 IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019
Land/Regio	Verenigd Koninkrijk
Stad	London
Periode	20/08/19 → 23/08/19

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Tweeting your destiny: profiling users in the twitter landscape around an online game. / Wallner, Günter; Kriglstein, Simone; Drachen, Anders.
2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019. 8848079.

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