Understanding Popularity of Social Media Entities
Suman Maity · 2017
With the evolution of social media over the years, entities like hashtags, tags, topics have also evolved and adopted traits that are very similar to various natural language units. One of the interesting and prevalent linguistic phenomena is compounding. Like natural language compounding, hashtag compounding also takes place and we study the factors behind their adoption in social media. Similar compounding phenomena can also be seen in Quora topics and other non-English languages used in social media.