An Innovative Way to Model Twitter Topic-Driven Interactions Using Multiplex Networks

Obaida Hanteer, Luca Rossi

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Abstract

We propose a way to model topic-based implicit interactions among Twitter users. Our model relies on grouping Twitter hashtags, in a given context, into themes/topics and then using the multiplex network model to construct a thematic multiplex where each layer corresponds to a topic/theme, and users within a layer are connected if and only if they used the same hashtag. We show, by testing our model on a real-world Twitter dataset, that applying multiplex community detection on the thematic multiplex can reveal new types of communities that were not observed before using the traditional ways of modeling Twitter interactions
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers in Big Data. Workshop Proceedings of the 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
PublisherFrontiers
Publication date6 Jun 2019
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Publication statusPublished - 6 Jun 2019

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