Smartphone´s popularity measurement by investigating Twitter profiles

Author

Shahzad, Basit ; Alwagait, Esam

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

350

Abstract

Social media has obtained significant importance in the recent years and is being effectively used for the propagation of information and obtaining the user feedback. This paper reviews the popularity of the two leading smartphone brands, Apple and Samsung. By considering their Twitter profile, the comparisons have been made on the location, number of followers and language and a continental assessment has been presented. The data retrieval was made possible by developing an API that crawled data of the required Twitter accounts. The paper presents the results of this experimental review.

Keywords

application program interfaces; information retrieval; smart phones; social networking (online); API; Apple smart phone; Samsung smart phone; Twitter accounts; Twitter profiles; continental assessment factor; data crawling; data retrieval; follower number factor; information propagation; language factor; location factor; smart phone popularity measurement; social media; user feedback; Australia; Blogs; Data visualization; Lead; Twitter; Mobile Technology; Samsung vs. Apple; Smartphone Popularity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 2013 Third World Congress on

Conference_Location

Hanoi

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICT.2013.7113093

Filename

7113093