To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’14):
Is Anyone Out There? Unpacking Q&A Hashtags on Twitter
Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski , Emma S. Spiro, Jorge N. Matias, Andrés Monroy-Hernández and Meredith R. Morris
In addition to posting news and status updates, many Twitter users post questions that seek various types of subjective and objective information. These questions are often labeled with “Q&A” hashtags, such as #lazyweb or #twoogle.