Identification of Influential Users in Online Social Network: A Brief Overview

Information networks where users join a network, publish their own content, and create links to other are called Online Social Networks (OSNs). Nowadays, OSNs have become one of the major platforms promote both new viral applications as well disseminate information. network analysis is study these information that leads uncovering patterns interaction among entities. In this regard, finding influential in very important they play key role success above phenomena. Various approaches exist detect OSNs, starting from simply counting immediate neighbors more complex machine-learning message-passing techniques. paper, we review recent existing research works focused on identifying OSNs.