From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter

Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella; Ingmar Weber; Sonya Dal Cin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14

From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter

Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Sonya Dal Cin

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

We use public data from Twitter to study the breakups of the romantic relationships of 661 couples. Couples are identified through profile references such as @user1 writing "@user2 is the best boyfriend ever!!". Using this data set we find evidence for a number of existing hypotheses describing psychological processes including (i) prerelationship closeness being indicative of post-relationship closeness, (ii) "stonewalling", i.e., ignoring messages by a partner, being indicative of a pending breakup, and (iii) post-breakup depression. We also observe a previously undocumented phenomenon of "batch un-friending and being un-friended" where users who break up experience sudden drops of 15-20 followers and friends. Our work shows that public Twitter data can be used to gain new insights into psychological processes surrounding relationship dissolutions, something that most people go through at least once in their lifetime.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Informatics - 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	199-215
Number of pages	17
Volume	8851
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319137339
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14
Publication status	Published - 2014
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Conference on Social Informatics - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 11 Nov 2014 → 13 Nov 2014 Conference number: 6

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8851
ISSN (Print)	03029743
ISSN (Electronic)	16113349

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Social Informatics
Abbreviated title	SocInfo
Country	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	11/11/2014 → 13/11/2014

Keywords

Breakups
Relationships
Twitter

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Garimella, V. R. K., Weber, I., & Cin, S. D. (2014). From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter. In Social Informatics - 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Proceedings (Vol. 8851, pp. 199-215). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8851). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14

Garimella, Venkata Rama Kiran ; Weber, Ingmar ; Cin, Sonya Dal. / From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter. Social Informatics - 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Proceedings. Vol. 8851 Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 199-215 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Garimella, VRK, Weber, I & Cin, SD 2014, From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter. in Social Informatics - 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Proceedings. vol. 8851, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8851, Springer Verlag, pp. 199-215, International Conference on Social Informatics, Barcelona, Spain, 11/11/2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14

From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter. / Garimella, Venkata Rama Kiran; Weber, Ingmar; Cin, Sonya Dal.

Social Informatics - 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Proceedings. Vol. 8851 Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 199-215 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8851).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Garimella VRK, Weber I, Cin SD. From “I love you babe” to “Leave me alone” - romantic relationship breakups on Twitter. In Social Informatics - 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Proceedings. Vol. 8851. Springer Verlag. 2014. p. 199-215. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14