Title
Identifying Topical Twitter Communities via User List Aggregation
Abstract
A particular challenge in the area of social media analysis is how to find communities within a larger network of social interactions. Here a community may be a group of microblogging users who post content on a coherent topic, or who are associated with a specific event or news story. Twitter provides the ability to curate users into lists, corresponding to meaningful topics or themes. Here we describe an approach for crowdsourcing the list building efforts of many different Twitter users, in order to identify topical communities. This approach involves the use of ensemble community finding to produce stable groupings of user lists, and by extension, individual Twitter users. We examine this approach in the context of a case study surrounding the detection of communities on Twitter relating to the London 2012 Olympics.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
CoRR
Community finding,Data mining,World Wide Web,Social media,Crowdsourcing,Computer science,Microblogging
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1207.0017
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Derek Greene148924.55
Derek O'Callaghan2996.61
Pádraig Cunningham33086218.37