Twitterrank: Finding topic-sensitive influential Twitterers

• Main Authors: WENG, Jianshu, LIM, Ee Peng, JIANG, Jing, HE, Qi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Influence; Pagerank; Twitter; Microblogging; Reciprocity; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/504; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1503/viewcontent/p261_weng.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper focuses on the problem of identifying influential users of micro-blogging services. Twitter, one of the most notable micro-blogging services, employs a social-networking model called "following", in which each user can choose who she wants to "follow" to receive tweets...