Extracting and evaluating conversational patterns in social media: A socio-semantic analysis of customers’ reactions to the launch of new products using Twitter streams

Carlo Lipizzi, Luca Iandoli and José Emmanuel Ramirez Marquez

International Journal of Information Management, 2015, vol. 35, issue 4, 490-503

Abstract: In this paper we use Twitter data to assess customers early reactions to the launch of two new products by Apple and Samsung by analyzing the streams generated in a 72h window around the two events. We present a methodology based on conversational analysis to extract concept maps from Twitter streams and use semantic and topological metrics to compare the conversations. Our findings show that there are significant differences in the structural patterns of the two conversations and that the analysis of these differences can be highly informative about early customers perceptions and value judgments associated with the competing products.

Keywords: Social media; Twitter Case study; Consumer electronics industry; Competitive analysis; Competitive intelligence; Competitor intelligence; Actionable intelligence; Text mining; Content analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2015.04.001

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