A computational approach to measuring the correlation between expertise and social media influence for celebrities on microblogs
- Wayne Xin Zhao ,
- Jing Liu ,
- Yulan He ,
- Chin-Yew Lin ,
- Ji-Rong Wen
2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) |
Published by IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Organized by IEEE
Existing approaches of social influence analysis usually focus on how to develop effective algorithms to quantize users’ influence scores. They rarely consider a person’s expertise levels which are arguably important to influence measures. In this paper, we propose a computational approach to measuring the correlation between expertise and social media influence, and we take a new perspective to understand social media influence by incorporating expertise into influence analysis. We carefully constructed a large dataset of 13,684 Chinese celebrities from Sina Weibo (literally “Sina microblogging”). We found that there is a strong correlation between expertise levels and social media influence scores. In addition, different expertise levels showed influence variation patterns: high-expertise celebrities have stronger influence on the “audience” in their expertise domains.
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