Two types of Twitter users with equally many followers
Two types of Twitter users with equally many followers
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10.1145/2492517.2492575
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2013-02
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K. Saito;N. Masuda
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作者：
K. Saito;N. Masuda
关注者的数量被认为是衡量Twitter用户受欢迎程度的最基本指标。然而，由于它受到操纵，因此可能具有欺骗性，因此已经提出了一些考虑用户活动（例如推文和转推率）的Twitter用户排名的替代方法。我们发现，有两种类型的用户拥有大量的追随者。第一种类型的用户跟随少数其他用户。第二种类型的用户关注的其他人几乎与其关注者的数量一样多。然后，我们研究自我中心的追随者网络的用户有许多追随者。作为一个例子，我们表明，第二种类型的用户平均比第一种类型的用户具有更高的链路互易性。我们的结论是，在估计用户在Twitter博客圈中的重要性时，用户关注的其他人的数量与关注者的数量同样重要。
The number of followers is acknowledged as the presumably most basic popularity measure of Twitter users. However, because it is subjected to manipulations and therefore may be deceptive, some alternative methods for ranking Twitter users that take into account users' activities such as the tweet and retweet rate have been proposed. We show that there are two types of users possessing a large number of followers. The first type of user follows a small number of others. The second type of user follows almost as equally many others as the number of its followers. Then, we examine egocentric followership networks of users having many followers. We show, as an example, that users of the second type have higher link reciprocity on average than users of the first type. We conclude that the number of others that a user follows is as equally important as the number of followers when estimating the importance of a user in the Twitter blogosphere.