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 (Vortragende:r), Simone Kriglstein, Anders Drachen

University of Applied Arts Vienna

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Abstract

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 with playtime of over 3,000 players. 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.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel	2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)
Seiten	1-8
Seitenumfang	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848079
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 2019
Veranstaltung	IEEE Conference on Games (COG) 2019 - Dauer: 20 Aug. 2019 → 23 Aug. 2019

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Konferenz	IEEE Conference on Games (COG) 2019
Zeitraum	20/08/19 → 23/08/19

Research Field

Ehemaliges Research Field - Capturing Experience

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