Information diffusion on twitter: Everyone has its chance, but all chances are not equal

Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems, SITIS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 483-490

  Remy, Cazabet ^a   Pervin, Nargis ^b   Toriumi, Fujio ^c   Takeda, Hideaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Information diffusion; Information propagation; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894150434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SITIS.2013.84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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