Inferring who-is-who in the twitter social network

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 533-538

  Sharma, Naveen ^a   Ghosh, Saptarshi ^a   Benevenuto, Fabricio ^b   Ganguly, Niloy ^c   Gummadi, Krishna P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UFOP ^*  (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Lists; Topic inference; Twitter; Who is who

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891596462     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2377677.2377782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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