Do altmetrics follow the crowd or does the crowd follow altmetrics?

Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta. Do altmetrics follow the crowd or does the crowd follow altmetrics?. In IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014, London, United Kingdom, September 8-12, 2014. pages 375-378, IEEE, 2014. [doi]

@inproceedings{AlhooriF14,
  title = {Do altmetrics follow the crowd or does the crowd follow altmetrics?},
  author = {Hamed Alhoori and Richard Furuta},
  year = {2014},
  doi = {10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970193},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970193},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/AlhooriF14},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {375-378},
  booktitle = {IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014, London, United Kingdom, September 8-12, 2014},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-5569-5},
}