2011/10/06 by Derek Greene, Fergal Reid, Greene, Derek +6 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #Web Data Mining and Analysis #Wikis in Education and Collaboration #cs.CY #cs.SI #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.1349
8 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2011/10/06 · openalex publication_date 2011/10/06 · arxiv updated 2011/10/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Twitter introduced lists in late 2009 as a means of curating tweets into meaningful themes. Lists were quickly adopted by media companies as a means of organising content around news stories. Thus the curation of these lists is important, they should contain the key information gatekeepers and present a balanced perspective on the story. Identifying members to add to a list on an emerging topic is a delicate process. From a network analysis perspective there are a number of views on the Twitter network that can be explored, e.g. followers, retweets mentions etc. We present a process for integrating these views in order to recommend authoritative commentators to include on a list. This process is evaluated on manually curated lists about unrest in Bahrain and the Iowa caucuses for the 2012 US election.