Headlines Matter: Using Headlines to Predict the Popularity of News Articles on Twitter and Facebook
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https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v11i1.14951Abstract
Social media like Facebook or Twitter have become an entry point to news for many readers. In that scenario, the headline is the most prominent — and often the only visible — part of the news article. We propose a novel task of using only headlines to predict the popularity of news articles. The prediction model is evaluated on headlines from two major broadsheet news outlets — The Guardian and New York Times. We significantly improve over several baselines, noting differences in the model performance between Facebook and Twitter.
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2017-05-03
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Piotrkowicz, A., Dimitrova, V., Otterbacher, J., & Markert, K. (2017). Headlines Matter: Using Headlines to Predict the Popularity of News Articles on Twitter and Facebook. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 11(1), 656-659. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v11i1.14951
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