Institute of Biometeorology, Italian National Research Council, Via G. Caproni 8, Florence, Italy
LaMMA Consortium, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
Alfonso Crisci
Institute of Biometeorology, Italian National Research Council, Via G. Caproni 8, Florence, Italy
Marco Morabito
Institute of Biometeorology, Italian National Research Council, Via G. Caproni 8, Florence, Italy
Paolo Nesi
DISIT Lab, Distributed [Systems and internet/Data Intelligence and] Technologies Lab, Dept. of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Florence, Italy Via S. Marta, Florence, Italy
Gianni Pantaleo
DISIT Lab, Distributed [Systems and internet/Data Intelligence and] Technologies Lab, Dept. of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Florence, Italy Via S. Marta, Florence, Italy
Imad Zaza
DISIT Lab, Distributed [Systems and internet/Data Intelligence and] Technologies Lab, Dept. of Information Engineering (DINFO), University of Florence, Italy Via S. Marta, Florence, Italy
Twitter has proved to be an important source of information during emergencies. In Twitter hashtags are used by users to improve information retrieval and coordinate conversations. A set of 20 hashtags to be used during weather warnings was proposed in Italy in 2014. This study presents a one-year monitoring of the Italian codified hashtags. Different regional contexts are presented and main findings are discussed. Institutions have a crucial role in the stable adoption of a codified hashtag.
Twitter has proved to be an important source of information during emergencies. In Twitter...
