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InfluenceTracker: Rating the impact of a Twitter account

Social and Information Networks 2014-04-22 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

We describe a methodology of rating the influence of a Twitter ac-count in this famous microblogging service. We then evaluate it over real ac-counts, under the belief that influence is not only a matter of quantity (amount of followers), but also a mixture of quality measures that reflect interaction, awareness, and visibility in the social sphere. The authors of this paper have created InfluenceTracker, a publicly available website where anyone can rate and compare the recent activity of any Twitter account.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5239,
  title  = {InfluenceTracker: Rating the impact of a Twitter account},
  author = {Gerasimos Razis and Ioannis Anagnostopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5239},
  year   = {2014}
}

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