Understanding user information sharing behaviors
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This is an assignment project for Social Media Analysis course in Fall 2012
Project Proposal
Characterizing user behaviors in retweeting in Twitter
Team Members
Goal
Identifying the relationship between likelihood that a user retweets a tweet with some other network and linguistic factors, e.g., the
Methods
- Using bag-of-words based classifiers to identify user community label
- Measuring user relative position in network using their community label and other
Data Set
The dataset is crawled from Twitter using Twitter's APIs. Starting from a set of selected influential users, we expanded the set by including their followers and followees. Tweets, including retweets, from all the users then will be crawled in daily basis.
