Euijong Lee  Jeong-Dong Kim  Doo-Kwon Baik

Twitter Search re-tweet follower social content search

Twitter is a social network service that generates about 140 million contents a day. Contents of Twitter contain a variety of information and many researchers research those in various fields. In this research, we propose a method for evaluating the importance of content based on characteristics of Twitter. We have found that number of follower means user’s popularity and Re-tweet that means the popularity of content. We perform experiments about proposed method using real Twitter data for proving effectiveness of proposed method. Also, we found information providers in Twitter are public user who represent a company or a representative of a specific group.