Twitter has evolved into a significant communication nexus, coupling personal and highly contextual utterances with local news, memes, celebrity gossip, headlines, and other microblogging subgenres. If we take Twitter as a large and varied dynamic collection, how can we predict which tweets will be interesting to a broad audience in advance of lagging social indicators of interest such as retweets? The telegraphic form of tweets, coupled with the subjective notion of interestingness, makes it difficult for human judges to agree on which tweets are indeed interesting.
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