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精英推文?Twitter验证用户网络

Elites Tweet? Characterizing the Twitter Verified User Network

Indraneil Paul, Abhinav Khattar, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Manish Gupta, Shaan Chopra

摘要:

社交网络和发布平台,如Twitter,支持验证的概念。验证账户被认为值得全平台的公共利益,并由平台本身单独认证。这些平台一再声称,核查不等于认可。然而,大量先前的工作表明,拥有经过验证的状态象征着在平台受众眼中增强的可信度。因此,这样的地位在公众人物和有影响力的人中非常令人垂涎。因此,我们试图描述Twitter上经过验证的用户的网络,并将结果与整个Twitter网络的类似分析进行比较。我们提取了Twitter上经过验证的用户的整个网络(截至2018年7月),并获得了231,246个用户简档和79,213,811个连接。随后在网络分析中,我们发现验证用户的子图在某些方面反映了完整的Twitter用户图,例如具有短直径。然而,我们的研究结果与早期的研究结果在多个方面,如拥有一个幂律出度分布,轻微dissortativity和显着更高的互惠率,如文件中所阐明的。此外,我们试图衡量这个子图中的显着组件的存在,并检测到缺乏同质性的受欢迎程度,这再次与完整的Twitter图形成鲜明对比。最后,我们证明了平稳性的时间序列验证用户活动水平。据我们所知,这项工作代表了第一次定量描述Twitter上验证用户的尝试。

英文摘要:

Social network and publishing platforms, such as Twitter, support the concept of verification. Verified accounts are deemed worthy of platform-wide public interest and are separately authenticated by the platform itself. There have been repeated assertions by these platforms about verification not being tantamount to endorsement. However, a significant body of prior work suggests that possessing a verified status symbolizes enhanced credibility in the eyes of the platform audience. As a result, such a status is highly coveted among public figures and influencers. Hence, we attempt to characterize the network of verified users on Twitter and compare the results to similar analysis performed for the entire Twitter network. We extracted the entire network of verified users on Twitter (as of July 2018) and obtained 231,246 user profiles and 79,213,811 connections. Subsequently in the network analysis, we found that the sub-graph of verified users mirrors the full Twitter users graph in some aspects such as possessing a short diameter. However, our findings contrast with earlier findings on multiple aspects, such as the possession of a power law out-degree distribution, slight dissortativity and a significantly higher reciprocity rate, as elucidated in the paper. Moreover, we attempt to gauge the presence of salient components within this sub-graph and detect the absence of homophily with respect to popularity, which again is in stark contrast to the full Twitter graph. Finally, we demonstrate stationarity in the time series of verified user activity levels. To the best of our knowledge, this work represents the first quantitative attempt at characterizing verified users on Twitter.

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