DocumentCode
659647
Title
Observation of Matthew Effects in Sina Weibo microblogger
Author
Mengmeng Yang ; Yi Zhou ; Qu Zhou ; Kai Chen ; Jianhua He ; Xiaokang Yang
fYear
2013
fDate
6-9 Oct. 2013
Firstpage
41
Lastpage
43
Abstract
This paper researches on Matthew Effect in Sina Weibo microblogger. We choose the microblogs in the ranking list of Hot Microblog App in Sina Weibo microblogger as target of our study. The differences of repost number of microblogs in the ranking list between before and after the time when it enter the ranking list of Hot Microblog app are analyzed. And we compare the spread features of the microblogs in the ranking list with those hot microblogs not in the list and those ordinary microblogs of users who have some microblog in the ranking list before. Our study proves the existence of Matthew Effect in social network.
Keywords
social networking (online); Matthew effects; Sina Weibo microblogger; hot microblog app; ranking list; social network; Conferences; Data handling; Data mining; Educational institutions; Information management; Media; Social network services;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Big Data, 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Silicon Valley, CA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BigData.2013.6691796
Filename
6691796
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