Measurement and analysis of burst topic in microblog

作者:Dong, Guozhong; Zou, Xin; Wang, Wei; Hu, Yaxue; Shen, Guowei; Orkphol, Korawit; Yang, Wu
来源:International Journal of Database Theory and Application, 2015, 8(2): 144-156.
DOI:10.14257/ijdta.2015.8.2.14

摘要

Microblog provides the first communication platform for burst event due to the immediacy and interactivity of microblog. In this paper, we research on user-oriented and message-oriented measurements of burst topic in Sina microblog. The measurements and analysis on large-scale Sina microblog data set show that our proposed measurement method can measure the characteristics of user and message propagation in burst topic. The measurement results in this paper can describe the formation and diffusion mechanism of burst topic which will contribute to better research of relevant issues on burst topic and ensure the well-developed of microblog.