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Twitter Search Methods using Retweet Information

Authors:
Jaeyoung Chang
Han-joon Kim

Keywords: Twitter; social network service; ranking; search

Abstract:
Recently, as social network services such as Twitter and FaceBook are becoming more popular, a large number of researches have been carried out with various approaches. However, since social network services have been launched recently, its related search methods are still at an early stage of practical service. Thus, most of current web search sites provide a simple search service for social network service posting articles in the order of their upload time. In this paper, we present a novel way of searching informative posting data in Twitter. The proposed method uses both the frequency of retweets and the number of users’ followers as major factors of ranking function in order to evaluate the quality of postings.

Pages: 67 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4391

ISBN: 978-1-61208-223-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012