Measuring user influence on Twitter: A survey

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Highlights：

• We survey the several measures that exists in literature to rank influential users in Twitter network.

• We propose a classification of these measures according to different criteria, such as the kind of metrics, the use of PageRank algorithm, the use of content analysis, among others.

• Besides the influential users, we also study measures of activity and popularity.

• We finish by mentioning some aspects of this topic related with computational complexity and correlation measures.

摘要

•We survey the several measures that exists in literature to rank influential users in Twitter network.•We propose a classification of these measures according to different criteria, such as the kind of metrics, the use of PageRank algorithm, the use of content analysis, among others.•Besides the influential users, we also study measures of activity and popularity.•We finish by mentioning some aspects of this topic related with computational complexity and correlation measures.

论文关键词：Twitter,User influence,Opinion leader,Centrality measure,PageRank

论文评审过程：Received 31 August 2015, Revised 6 April 2016, Accepted 8 April 2016, Available online 23 April 2016, Version of Record 22 July 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2016.04.003