We describe a methodology of rating the influence of a Twitter account in this famous microblogging service. We then evaluate it over real accounts, under the belief that influence is not only a matter of quantity (amount of followers), but also a mixture of quality measures that reflect interaction, awareness, and visibility in the social sphere. The authors of this paper have created "InfluenceTracker", a publicly available website 1 where anyone can rate and compare the recent activity of any Twitter account.
In this paper, we propose an ontology schema towards semantification provision of Twitter social analytics. The ontology is deployed over a publicly available service that measures how influential a Twitter account is, by combining its social activity and interaction over Twittersphere. Apart from influential quantity and quality measures, the service provides a SPARQL endpoint where users can perform advance semantic queries through the RDFized Twitter entities (mentions, replies, hashtags, photos, URLs) over the semantic graph.
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