What really matters?: characterising and predicting user engagement of news postings using multiple platforms, sentiments and topics

Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen

Abstract: This research characterises user engagement of approximately 3,000,000 news postings of 53 news outlets and 50,000,000 associated user comments during 8 months on 5 social media platforms (i.e. Fac...