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Twitterrank: finding topic-sensitive influential twitterers

by Jianshu Weng, Ee-peng Lim, Jing Jiang, Qi He - IN IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SEARCH AND DATA MINING , 2010
"... 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 from without requir ..."
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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 from without

Micro-Blogging in the Workplace

by Chia Yao Lee, Matthew Warren, Chia Yao Lee, Matthew Warren , 2010
"... Micro-blogging services such as Twitter, Yammer, Plurk and Google Buzz have generated substantial interest among members of the business community in recent years. Many CEOs, managers and front-line employees have embraced micro-blogs as a tool for interacting with colleagues, employees, customers, ..."
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Micro-blogging services such as Twitter, Yammer, Plurk and Google Buzz have generated substantial interest among members of the business community in recent years. Many CEOs, managers and front-line employees have embraced micro-blogs as a tool for interacting with colleagues, employees, customers

Mining Micro-Blogs: Opportunities and Challenges

by Yang Liao, Masud Moshtaghi, Bo Han, Shanika Karunasekera, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Timothy Baldwin, Aaron Harwood
"... Summary. This chapter investigates whether and how micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter messages can be harnessed to obtain valuable information. The interesting characteristics of micro-blogging services, such as being user oriented, provide opportunities for different applications to use t ..."
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Summary. This chapter investigates whether and how micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter messages can be harnessed to obtain valuable information. The interesting characteristics of micro-blogging services, such as being user oriented, provide opportunities for different applications to use

Whom to Ask? Jury Selection for Decision Making Tasks on Micro-blog Services

by Caleb Chen, Cao Jieying, She Yongxin, Tong Lei Chen
"... It is universal to see people obtain knowledge on micro-blog services by asking others decision making questions. In this paper, we study the Jury Selection Problem(JSP) by utilizing crowdsourcing for decision making tasks on micro-blog services. Specifically, the problem is to enroll a subset of cr ..."
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It is universal to see people obtain knowledge on micro-blog services by asking others decision making questions. In this paper, we study the Jury Selection Problem(JSP) by utilizing crowdsourcing for decision making tasks on micro-blog services. Specifically, the problem is to enroll a subset

Feature Extraction from Micro-blogs for Comparison of Products and Services

by Peng Zhao, Xue Li, Ke Wang
"... Abstract. Social networks are a popular place for people to express their opinions about products and services. One question would be that for two similar products (e.g., two different brands of mobile phones), can we make them comparable to each other? In this paper, we show our system namely Opini ..."
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OpinionAnalyzer, a novel social network analyser designed to collect opinions from Twitter micro-blogs about two given similar products for an effective comparison between them. The system outcome is a structure of features for the given products that people have expressed opinions about

Nothing Micro About Micro-Blogging By Macky Cruz Monthly Threat Roundup

by unknown authors , 2009
"... More than a micro-blogging service that lets users create and read other people’s “tweets ” (text posts or updates that are up to 140 characters in length), Twitter fosters both real-life and online relationships. Tweets can range from the mundane to the life threatening. Some see Twitter as a produ ..."
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More than a micro-blogging service that lets users create and read other people’s “tweets ” (text posts or updates that are up to 140 characters in length), Twitter fosters both real-life and online relationships. Tweets can range from the mundane to the life threatening. Some see Twitter as a

Users Sleeping Time Analysis based on Micro-blogging Data

by Haoran Yu, Key Lab, High Performance, Computing Anhui Province, Guangzhong Sun, Min Lv
"... The emergence of new social network services, often labeled as Web 2.0, has permitted an amazingly increase of user generated content. In particular, Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese micro-blogging service is designed as platforms allowing users to generate contents that open to the public. From analyz ..."
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The emergence of new social network services, often labeled as Web 2.0, has permitted an amazingly increase of user generated content. In particular, Sina Weibo, a popular Chinese micro-blogging service is designed as platforms allowing users to generate contents that open to the public. From

CRFs-Based Chinese Word Segmentation for Micro-Blog with Small- Scale Data

by Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao, Junwen Xing
"... In this paper, we proposed a Chinese word segmentation model for micro-blog text. Alt-hough Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) models have been presented to deal with word segmentation, this is still the first time to apply it for the segmentation in the domain of Chi-nese micro-blog. Different from t ..."
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-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff (Bakeoff-2012) and achieves a very high F-measure of 93.38 % within the test set of 5,000 micro-blog sentences. One of our main contri-butions is the online version of toolkit 1, which provides segmentation service for Chinese mi-cro-blog text. 1

Impact of Mobile Micro-blogging on Communication and Decision-Making Research-in-Progress

by Kyungsub S. Choi, Il Im, Youngjin Yoo
"... One of the most common forms of using mobile and social media technologies is the use of micro-blogging such as Twitter on mobile devices. The ubiquity of mobile devices combined with the communication via social network service like Twitter can potentially host a number of significant changes in th ..."
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One of the most common forms of using mobile and social media technologies is the use of micro-blogging such as Twitter on mobile devices. The ubiquity of mobile devices combined with the communication via social network service like Twitter can potentially host a number of significant changes

What is the Nature of Chinese MicroBlogging: Unveiling the Unique Features of Tencent Weibo

by unknown authors
"... China has the largest number of online users in the world and about 20 % internet users are from China. This is a huge, as well as a mysterious, market for IT industry due to various reasons such as culture difference. Twitter is the largest microblogging service in the world and Tencent Weibo is on ..."
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China has the largest number of online users in the world and about 20 % internet users are from China. This is a huge, as well as a mysterious, market for IT industry due to various reasons such as culture difference. Twitter is the largest microblogging service in the world and Tencent Weibo
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