Articles | Volume 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-63-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-63-2017
04 Apr 2017
 | 04 Apr 2017

Italian codified hashtags for weather warning on Twitter – who is really using them?

Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, Marco Morabito, Paolo Nesi, Gianni Pantaleo, Imad Zaza, and Bernardo Gozzini

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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.