InfluenceTracker: Rating the Impact of a Twitter Account

Abstract

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.

How friends affect user behaviors? An exploration of social relation analysis for recommendation

“…Additionally, some platforms also try to analyze the social influence, such as the Klout, 3 Followerwonk, 4 InfluenceTracker 5 [53]. Social relation analysis attracts more and more attention.…”

Diversifying Microblog Posts

“…We propose that the influence of microblog users is an important factor to diversify the result list of relevant with the user information need posts. In [14], the authors proposed a methodology for calculating the importance and the influence of a Twitter account. We make use of their influence metric, which quantifies the diffusion of information in a microblog service.…”

“…#, @, url). We extracted named entities using the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer 5 [8], sentiment using Sentistrength [18] and social influence using InfluenceTracker 6 [14]. Finally, we calculated and normalized the values for the temporal, geographical and readability dimensions for each post.…”

Modeling Influence with Semantics in Social Networks

“…• Influence Metrics: In [111] and [112], we present a publicly available service 7 aiming at calculating and ranking the importance and influence of Twitter accounts. Specifically, we define "Influence Metric", which value derives from a social function incorporating i) the activity of a Twitter account (e.g.…”

“…In this "ocean" of information, a challenging task is the discovery of the important actors who are able to influence others and produce messages of high social quality, importance and recognition. Those influential users are also called opinion leaders [15], domain experts [16], influencers [111], innovators [119], prestigious [120] or authoritative actors [121]. Often, their degree of influence is also complemented or affected by various quality measurements which are based on their social semantics.…”