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Speaking Speaking and and being heardbeing heard: : how advocacy organizations gain attention in the how advocacy organizations gain attention in the social media worldsocial media world
Chao GuoUniversity of Pennsylvania
Gregory D. Saxton
University at Buffalo
May 30, 2014
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Causal Framework
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Data and Method Our sample comprises 145 “Civil Rights
and Advocacy” organizations rated by Charity Navigator in 2011.
We test our hypotheses with a 12-month panel dataset—this organization-month level dataset collapses by month and organization the 219,915 tweets that were sent by the 145 organizations over the entire 12 months of 2013.
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# of Tweets sent each month by the AARP Foundation
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Findings:Who Gets Attention?
Size of the network matters The average number of followers for the 250 tweets with no retweets:
5,160 The average number of followers for the 250 tweets with the most
retweets: 63,279 A small # of followers (then the amount you tweet does not matter)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) <900 followers, 4 friends, 0 retweets.
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Findings (cont’d):Who Gets Attention?
Volume (or frequency) of speech matters Speaking – Show your presence.
A lot of LGBT messages, e.g., gay marriage, GLAAD, The Trevor Project, etc.
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Findings (cont’d):Who Gets Attention?
Targeting & connecting strategy matters: Targeting
Public Reply Messages e.g., “@joeymygod Thanks for the RT!”
Connecting – build alliances. Retweeting other people’s messages. Hashtags (#anser2014) – connecting to topics
URLs (hyperlinks) User mentions
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Findings (cont’d):Who Gets Attention?
Visual content matters: Photos Link to photos Link to videos
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Expected Number of Retweets Received at Various Levels of Tweeting, Retweeting, and Tagging Activity