Social Media Mining: An Introduction

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1.6 Exercises 9


  1. What marketing opportunities do you think exist in social media? Can
    you outline an example of such an opportunity in Twitter?

  2. How does behavior of individuals change across sites? What behaviors
    remain consistent and what behaviors likely change? What are possible
    reasons behind these differences?

  3. How does social media influence real-world behaviors of individuals?
    Identify a behavior that is due to the usage of, say, Twitter.

  4. Outline how social media can help NGOs fulfill their missions better
    in performing tasks such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

  5. Identify at least three major side effects of information sharing on social
    media.

  6. Rumors spread rapidly on social media. Can you think of some method
    to block the spread of rumors on social media?

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