Title :
Trending topics in a peer-to-peer micro-blogging social network
Author :
Asthana, H. ; Cox, I.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We investigate the problem of identifying trending information in a peer-to-peer micro-blogging social network. Trending topics are valuable since they often reflect a news-worthy event and invite users to search on the topic to see what others are posting about the event. Whilst identifying trending topics in a centralized system is relatively straightforward, in a peer-to-peer environment the participating nodes do not have access to global statistics such as the micro-blog post creation rate and the frequencies of the keywords.
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; social networking (online); centralized system; news-worthy event; peer-to-peer microblogging social network; trending topics; Accuracy; Bandwidth; Blogs; Conferences; Peer-to-peer computing; Twitter;
Conference_Titel :
Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2013 IEEE Thirteenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trento
DOI :
10.1109/P2P.2013.6688719
