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

G Wallner, S Kriglstein… - 2019 IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2019ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …
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.
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