Influence of Retweets
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چکیده
We define a new metric for measuring influence on Twitter using retweets. Existing metric focuses on the user’s ability to pass-on high value content, while our new metric focuses on the ability to generate the original high value content. Experiments show that these two metrics produce completely different rankings of the most influential users. In addition, the influences of top influential users vary more over time with the new metric than with the old one.
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