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Follower classification through social network analysis in Twitter

  • Jae Wook Seol
  • , Kwang Yong Jeong
  • , Kyung Soon Lee*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
    • Jeonbuk National University

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference paperpeer-review

    Abstract

    Through 'Twitter', one of the Social Network Service, people can have relationships by using 'Follow', a function of Twitter. Every user has different purposes, so there are various 'Followers', These Followers follow somebody in favor of them or just to support them without reasons or to criticize or watch one's behavior or tweet(one's comments). In this paper, a Model is suggested that why they follow certain users by using network relations between followers. User's influential supporters and influential non-supporters are extracted and then supporters, neutrals, and non-supporters are classified by follower's retweet information, profile and recent tweet sentiment analysis. In order to verify this suggestion's validity, random 30,000 users who follow one of the 5 politicians are extracted to experiment. After the experiment, I got to know that supports from influential support-followers and influential nonsupport- followers and non-support-followers classification was effective.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationGrid and Pervasive Computing - 8th International Conference, GPC 2013 and Colocated Workshops, Proceedings
    Pages926-931
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2013
    Event8th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2013 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 2013.05.92013.05.11

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume7861 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference8th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2013
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CitySeoul
    Period13.05.913.05.11

    Keywords

    • follow network
    • Follower
    • SNS
    • Twitter
    • user behavior

    Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

    • Computer Science & Information Systems

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