TwiCube: A real-time Twitter online community analysis tool
As a micro-blogging service, Twitter differs from other social network services in two ways: 1) the absence of mutual consent in establishing follow links and 2) being a mixture of news media and social network. A key question to ask in better understanding Twitter user behavior is which part of a u...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2013
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| Summary: | As a micro-blogging service, Twitter differs from other social network services in two ways: 1) the absence of mutual consent in establishing follow links and 2) being a mixture of news media and social network. A key question to ask in better understanding Twitter user behavior is which part of a user’s Twitter network reflects one’s real-life social network. TwiCube is an online tool that employs a novel algorithm capable of identifying a user’s real-life social community, which we call the user’s off-line community, purely from examining the link structure among the user’s followers and followees. Based on the identified off-line community, TwiCube provides a summary of the user’s interests, tweeting habits and neighborhood popularity analysis. Evaluations from real Twitter users demonstrate that our off-line community detection approach achieves high precision and recall in most cases. |
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