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The recent outbreak of the MPox virus has resulted in a tremendous increase in the usage of Twitter. Prior works in this area of research have primarily focused on the sentiment analysis and content analysis of these Tweets, and the few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Nirmalya Thakur , Yuvraj Nihal Duggal , Zihui Liu

With the significant increase in users on social media platforms, a new means of political campaigning has appeared. Twitter and Facebook are now notable campaigning tools during elections. Indeed, the candidates and their parties now take…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Hadi Abdine , Yanzhu Guo , Virgile Rennard , Michalis Vazirgiannis

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting what is now known as the Russo-Ukrainian War, initiating an online discourse on social media. Twitter as one of the most popular SNs, with an open and democratic character, enables a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Alexander Shevtsov , Despoina Antonakaki , Ioannis Lamprou , Ioannis Kontogiorgakis , Polyvios Pratikakis , Sotiris Ioannidis

Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated by autonomous entities known as social bots. In this work we present a framework to detect such entities on Twitter. We leverage more than a thousand…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Onur Varol , Emilio Ferrara , Clayton A. Davis , Filippo Menczer , Alessandro Flammini

In Twitter, a name, phrase, or topic that is mentioned at a greater rate than others is called a "trending topic" or simply "trend". Twitter trends list has a powerful ability to promote public events such as natural events, political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Issa Annamoradnejad , Jafar Habibi

Social media moderation policies are often at the center of public debate, and their implementation and enactment are sometimes surrounded by a veil of mystery. Unsurprisingly, due to limited platform transparency and data access,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Francesco Pierri , Luca Luceri , Emily Chen , Emilio Ferrara

The presidential elections in the United States on 3 November 2020 have caused extensive discussions on social media. A part of the content on US elections is organic, coming from users discussing their opinions of the candidates, political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Alexander Shevtsov , Maria Oikonomidou , Despoina Antonakaki , Polyvios Pratikakis , Sotiris Ioannidis

As a platform, Twitter has been a significant public space for discussion related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public social media platforms such as Twitter represent important sites of engagement regarding the pandemic and these data can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hassan Dashtian , Dhiraj Murthy

Many governments impose traditional censorship methods on social media platforms. Instead of removing it completely, many social media companies, including Twitter, only withhold the content from the requesting country. This makes such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Tuğrulcan Elmas , Rebekah Overdorf , Karl Aberer

One way to assess a certain aspect of the value of scientific research is to measure the attention it receives on social media. While previous research has mostly focused on the "number of mentions" of scientific research on social media,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Haunschild , Lutz Bornmann , Devendra Potnis , Iman Tahamtan

As an alternative to Twitter and other centralized social networks, the Fediverse is growing in popularity. The recent, and polemical, takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk has exacerbated this trend. The Fediverse includes a growing number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ishaku Hassan Anaobi , Aravindh Raman , Ignacio Castro , Haris Bin Zia , Dami Ibosiola , Gareth Tyson

This paper presents the TikTok 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Dataset, a large-scale, resource designed to advance research into political communication and social media dynamics. The dataset comprises 3.14 million videos published on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gabriela Pinto , Charles Bickham , Tanishq Salkar , Joyston Menezes , Luca Luceri , Emilio Ferrara

Current research on users` perspectives of cyber security and privacy related to traditional and smart devices at home is very active, but the focus is often more on specific modern devices such as mobile and smart IoT devices in a home…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Nandita Pattnaik , Shujun Li , Jason R. C. Nurse

The amount of user generated contents from various social medias allows analyst to handle a wide view of conversations on several topics related to their business. Nevertheless keeping up-to-date with this amount of information is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Jean Valère Cossu , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno , Eric SanJuan , Marc El-Bèze

COVID-19 represents the most severe global crisis to date whose public conversation can be studied in real time. To do so, we use a data set of over 350 million tweets and retweets posted by over 26 million English speaking Twitter users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Francesco Durazzi , Martin Müller , Marcel Salathé , Daniel Remondini

As one of the most extensive social networking services, Twitter has more than 300 million active users as of 2022. Among its many functions, Twitter is now one of the go-to platforms for consumers to share their opinions about products or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Shengyang Wu , Yi Gao

Centrality is one of the most studied concepts in social network analysis. There is a huge literature regarding centrality measures, as ways to identify the most relevant users in a social network. The challenge is to find measures that can…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Fabián Riquelme , Pablo González-Cantergiani

Data extracted from social networks like Twitter are increasingly being used to build applications and services that mine and summarize public reactions to events, such as traffic monitoring platforms, identification of epidemic outbreaks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Carlos A. Freitas , Fabrício Benevenuto , Saptarshi Ghosh , Adriano Veloso

Recommender systems constitute the core engine of most social network platforms nowadays, aiming to maximize user satisfaction along with other key business objectives. Twitter is no exception. Despite the fact that Twitter data has been…

The need for a comprehensive study to explore various aspects of online social media has been instigated by many researchers. This paper gives an insight into the social platform, Twitter. In this present work, we have illustrated stepwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Mohammad Muzammil Khan , M. Afshar Alam