Does social contact matter? Modelling the hidden web of trust underlying twitter

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 981-988

  Tavakolifard, Mozhgan ^a   Almeroth, Kevin C ^b   Gulla, Jon Atle ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Recommender systems; Similarity; Social networks; Trust; Twitter

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); USER PROFILE;

HIDDEN WEB; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; OVERLOAD PROBLEMS; SIMILARITY; SOCIAL CONTACTS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; TRUST; TWITTER; WEB OF TRUST;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893101832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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