NDLI: Profiling the followers of the most influential and verified users on Sina Weibo

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Huiyu Wang Kai Lei Kuai Xu
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab. for Cloud Comput. Technol. & Applic., Peking Univ., Shenzhen, China (Huiyu Wang; Kai Lei) \|\| Sch. of Math. & Natural Sci., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA (Kuai Xu)
Abstract	The new social media such as Twitter and Sina Weibo has become an increasingly popular channel for spreading influence, challenging traditional media such as TVs and newspapers. The most influential and verified users, also called big-V accounts on Sina Weibo often attract million of followers and fans, creating massive “celebrity-centric” social networks on the social media, which play a key role in disseminating breaking news, latest events, and controversial opinions on social issues. Given the importance of these accounts, it is very crucial to understand social networks and user influence of these accounts and profile their followers' behaviors. Towards this end, this paper monitors a selected group of influential users on Sina Weibo and collects their tweet streams as well as retweeting and commenting activities on these tweets from their followers. Our analysis on tweet data streams from Sina Weibo reveals when and what the followers comment on the tweets of these influential users, and discovers different temporal patterns and word diversity in the comments. Based on the insight gained from follower characteristics, we further develop simple and intuitive algorithms for classifying the followers into spammers and normal fans. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms are able to achieve an average accuracy of 95.20% in detecting spammers from the followers who have commented on the tweets of these influential accounts.
Starting Page	1158
Ending Page	1163
File Size	516166
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467364324
DOI	10.1109/ICC.2015.7248479
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-08
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Classification algorithms Fans Social network services Media Feature extraction Standards Entropy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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