Glossary
- Flickr:
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A multimedia sharing social networking platform aiming at enhancing content retrieval for Web users
- Twitter:
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A microblogging platform enabling its users to send and read messages known as tweets
Definition
Twitter, which is an online microblogging service, and Flickr, which is an online image and video hosting service, are two very popular social networking applications for sharing and disseminating content and users’ opinions.
Introduction
Flickr constitutes one of the largest worldwide sources of published images and videos. Flickr users can make comments, generate annotations (via tags), and search and access multimedia content of their interest. Multimedia content tagging is a valuable practice that facilitates tasks that are relevant to the contents of the multimedia resources.
Twitterenables users to post and send short, concise messages (of totally 140 characters) that are visible and available publicly,...
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Vakali, A. (2018). Flickr and Twitter Data Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_234
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