Truthy: Mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-252

  Ratkiewicz, Jacob ^a   Conover, Michael ^a   Meiss, Mark ^a   Gonçalves, Bruno ^a   Patil, Snehal ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; information diffusion; memes; microblogs; politics; social media; truthy; twitter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MEMES; MICROBLOGS; POLITICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRUTHY; TWITTER;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIFFUSION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; WEB SERVICES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79955135282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963192.1963301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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