Follow Link Seeking Strategy: A pattern based approach

• Main Authors: KWEE, Agus Trisnajaya, LIM, Ee Peng, PALAKORN, Achananuparp, ZHU, Feida
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Twitter; Follow link seeking; Follow link patterns; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1543
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The way Twitter and other microblogging networks work is to have users create follow links among one another, and create short messages to their followers. Most of the time, the creation of follow links to other users does not require approval from the latter. Therefore, it is very easy for a user t...