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Detecting Community Pacemakers Of Burst Topic In Twitter, Guozhong Dong, Wu Yang, Feida Zhu, Wei Wang
Detecting Community Pacemakers Of Burst Topic In Twitter, Guozhong Dong, Wu Yang, Feida Zhu, Wei Wang
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Twitter has become one of largest social networks for users to broad-cast burst topics. Influential users usually have a large number of followers and play an important role in the diffusion of burst topic. There have been many studies on how to detect influential users. However, traditional influential users detection approaches have largely ignored influential users in user community. In this paper, we investigate the problem of detecting community pacemakers. Community pacemakers are defined as the influential users that promote early diffusion in the user community of burst topic. To solve this problem, we present DCPBT, a framework that can …