The purpose of this paper was to understand how Twitter users responded to the cultural heritage damaged during the 2015 Nepal earthquake. This paper utilizes 201,457 tweets (including retweets) from three different data sets. The analysis shows that approximately 4% of tweets were regarding cultural heritage. Moreover, asymmetrical information was available on Twitter regarding cultural heritage during the Nepal earthquake, that is not every site received equal attention from the public. Damaged sites received more attention than unaffected sites. The content of tweets can be divided into five categories: information, sentiment, memory, action and noise. Most people (89.1%) used Twitter during the disaster to disseminate information regarding damaged cultural heritage sites.

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Twitter，灾难与文化遗产：以2015年尼泊尔地震为例

本文的目的是了解Twitter用户如何应对2015年尼泊尔地震期间遭到破坏的文化遗产。本文利用了来自三个不同数据集的201,457条推文（包括转推）。分析表明，大约4％的推文与文化遗产有关。此外，在Twitter上可以找到有关尼泊尔地震期间文化遗产的非对称信息，并不是每个站点都受到公众的同等关注。受损站点比未受影响站点受到更多关注。推文的内容可以分为五类：信息，情感，记忆，行为和噪音。灾难期间，大多数人（89.1％）使用Twitter传播有关受损文化遗产站点的信息。