Maurizio Tesconi is a researcher at the CNR Computing Science Institute in Pisa, Italy. His doctoral thesis was on the development of a framework for the management of complex semantic resources and his current research focuses on web semantics, computational linguistics and social media. He has recently developed the web application Social Trends, which permits the monitoring, analysis and study of social media and its evolution over time.
Sharing on social networks is an essential element in the current news ecosystem, not just for traffic building but also as a key parameter in measuring the interest and attention a given article re...