An Analysis of Twitter Communities Related to the 2022 War in Ukraine

Karolina Sliwa, Ema Kušen, Mark Strembeck, Mark Strembeck, Mark Strembeck

2023

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze a dataset including more than 189 million tweets related to the first month of the 2022 war in Ukraine. Our analysis especially focuses on communities of Twitter users and their collective behavior. In particular, we applied the InfoMap community detection algorithm and found on average 44079.63 communities of Twitter users per day. Our behavioral analysis especially focuses on the five largest daily communities (i.e. the communities that have been detected for each day during the first month of the war). We found that: 1) hashtags played an essential role in framing conversations, 2) communities often publicly called on international organizations or offices such as @potus, @NATO, or @UN to aid in conflict resolution, 3) anger was the dominant emotion in all communities and 4) negative tweets spread wider than the positive ones.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sliwa K., Kušen E. and Strembeck M. (2023). An Analysis of Twitter Communities Related to the 2022 War in Ukraine. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS, ISBN 978-989-758-644-6, SciTePress, pages 27-36. DOI: 10.5220/0011980700003485

in Bibtex Style

@conference{complexis23,
author={Karolina Sliwa and Ema Kušen and Mark Strembeck},
title={An Analysis of Twitter Communities Related to the 2022 War in Ukraine},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS,},
year={2023},
pages={27-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011980700003485},
isbn={978-989-758-644-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS,
TI - An Analysis of Twitter Communities Related to the 2022 War in Ukraine
SN - 978-989-758-644-6
AU - Sliwa K.
AU - Kušen E.
AU - Strembeck M.
PY - 2023
SP - 27
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0011980700003485
PB - SciTePress