A Study on Strength of Sina Weibo
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چکیده
With the widespread use of mobile smart device, and its ubiquitous network access capability, microblog have important influence. But to one node in microblog space, how to measure its importance is a key problem. In this paper, we propose a method to evaluate and compute the influence of one node in sina Weibo. An algorithm named MicroV is proposed to quantify the strength of one user in the microblog space. We use the algorithm to evaluate 60 thousand uses in the Sina Weibo.
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