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Microblogging

About: Microblogging is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4186 publications have been published within this topic receiving 137030 citations. The topic is also known as: microblog.


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Proceedings ArticleDOI
15 Jun 2010
TL;DR: The design takes advantages of the inherent social relationships while leverages P2P techniques towards scalable, reliable microblogging services, and provides a flexible interface for data collection while circumventing unnecessary traffic on the server.
Abstract: Online microblogging services, as exemplified by Twitter [9] and Yammer [12], have become immensely popular during the latest three years. Twitter, the most successful microblogging service, has attracted more than 41.7 million users as of July 2009 [25] and is still growing fast. However, current microblogging systems severely suffer from performance bottlenecks and central points of failure due to their centralized architecture. Thus, centralized microblogging systems may threaten the scalability, reliability, as well as availability of the offered services, not to mention the extremely high operational and maintenance cost.However, it is not trivial to decentralize microblogging services in a peer-to-peer fashion. The challenges first derive from the heterogeneity of the inherent online social network (OSN) features. The non-reciprocation feature of microblogging services also increases the heterogeneity. Moreover, different from traditional approaches used in centralized server-based systems, an efficient, robust and scalable approach for data collection and dissemination in such distributed heterogeneous environments is desirable.In this paper, we present a decentralized, socio-aware microblogging system named Cuckoo. The design takes advantages of the inherent social relationships while leverages P2P techniques towards scalable, reliable microblogging services. Besides, Cuckoo provides a flexible interface for data collection while circumventing unnecessary traffic on the server. We discuss the benefits that our system may bring for both service providers and end users. We also discuss the technical aspects to be considered and report our work in progress.

41 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Jul 2015
TL;DR: A system which can identify medical named entities in a real-time stream of Twitter posts and determine their geographic locations is presented, as well as preliminary experiments in using this information for health surveillance purposes.
Abstract: Microblog services such as Twitter are an attractive source of data for public health surveillance, as they avoid the legal and technical obstacles to accessing the more obvious and targeted sources of health information. Only a tiny fraction of tweets may contain useful public health information but in Twitter this is oset by the sheer volume of tweets posted. We present a system which can identify medical named entities in a real-time stream of Twitter posts and determine their geographic locations, as well as preliminary experiments in using this information for health surveillance purposes.

41 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The authors assesses the rise and influence of microblogs from political, social, and commercial aspects, and examines ways the Chinese government has controlled microblogs, considers newer competing forms of communication, and assesses trends in Chinese digital discourse.
Abstract: China’s weibo community numbered more than 300 million users in 2013. This article assesses the rise and influence of microblogs from political, social, and commercial aspects. It examines ways the Chinese government has controlled microblogs, considers newer competing forms of communication, and assesses trends in Chinese digital discourse.

40 citations

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TL;DR: A machine learning based solution for summarizing Arabic micro blogging posts and more specifically Egyptian dialect summarization is presented to produce short summary for Arabic tweets related to a specific topic in less time and effort.

40 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
11 Aug 2013
TL;DR: This paper presents a systematic research on the analysis of spamming in Sina Weibo platform, which is currently a dominant microblogging service provider in China, and designs an automatic online spammer identification system.
Abstract: Spamming has been a widespread problem for social networks. In recent years there is an increasing interest in the analysis of anti-spamming for microblogs, such as Twitter. In this paper we present a systematic research on the analysis of spamming in Sina Weibo platform, which is currently a dominant microblogging service provider in China. Our research objectives are to understand the specific spamming behaviors in Sina Weibo and find approaches to identify and block spammers in Sina Weibo based on spamming behavior classifiers. To start with the analysis of spamming behaviors we devise several effective methods to collect a large set of spammer samples, including uses of proactive honeypots and crawlers, keywords based searching and buying spammer samples directly from online merchants. We processed the database associated with these spammer samples and interestingly we found three representative spamming behaviors: aggressive advertising, repeated duplicate reposting and aggressive following. We extract various features and compare the behaviors of spammers and legitimate users with regard to these features. It is found that spamming behaviors and normal behaviors have distinct characteristics. Based on these findings we design an automatic online spammer identification system. Through tests with real data it is demonstrated that the system can effectively detect the spamming behaviors and identify spammers in Sina Weibo.

40 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023202
2022551
2021153
2020238
2019226
2018282