%0 Book Section %1 kiranlovetwitter2014 %A Garimella, VenkataRamaKiran %A Weber, Ingmar %A Dal Cin, Sonya %B Social Informatics %D 2014 %E Aiello, LucaMaria %E McFarland, Daniel %I Springer International Publishing %K love phdproposal relationship twitter %P 199-215 %R 10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14 %T From “I Love You Babe” to “Leave Me Alone” - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14 %V 8851 %X 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) pre-relationship 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. %@ 978-3-319-13733-9

@incollection{kiranlovetwitter2014, 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) pre-relationship 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.}, added-at = {2015-01-23T10:35:17.000+0100}, author = {Garimella, VenkataRamaKiran and Weber, Ingmar and Dal Cin, Sonya}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f10e92974e8974237ce6c707f94646d9/asmelash}, booktitle = {Social Informatics}, description = {From “I Love You Babe” to “Leave Me Alone” - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter - Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14}, editor = {Aiello, LucaMaria and McFarland, Daniel}, interhash = {395cb716af9dfafb097c7d4e3cc53d98}, intrahash = {f10e92974e8974237ce6c707f94646d9}, isbn = {978-3-319-13733-9}, keywords = {love phdproposal relationship twitter}, language = {English}, pages = {199-215}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, timestamp = {2015-01-23T10:36:29.000+0100}, title = {From “I Love You Babe” to “Leave Me Alone” - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13734-6_14}, volume = 8851, year = 2014 }