Abstract:People publish tweets on Twitter to share everything from global news to their daily life. Abundant user-generated content makes Twitter become one of the major channels for people to obtain information about real-world events. Event detection techniques help to extract events from massive amounts of Twitter data. However, most existing techniques are based on Twitter information streams, which contain plenty of noise and polluted content that would affect the accuracy of the detecting result. In this article,… Show more
“…Social media analysis is the focus of two articles in the Special Issue. One of them [5] presents a method for detecting significant events in social networks that can positively or negatively affect users. The changes in the user's followership network are used for event detection and are the base of a further analysis of the network dynamics.…”
The large amount of digital content available through web sites, social networks, streaming services, and other distribution media, allows more and more people to access virtually unlimited sources of information, products, and services [...]
“…Social media analysis is the focus of two articles in the Special Issue. One of them [5] presents a method for detecting significant events in social networks that can positively or negatively affect users. The changes in the user's followership network are used for event detection and are the base of a further analysis of the network dynamics.…”
The large amount of digital content available through web sites, social networks, streaming services, and other distribution media, allows more and more people to access virtually unlimited sources of information, products, and services [...]
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