Twitter Privacy Concern: The Effect of Twitter Profile

Twitter and Privacy What can be mined

This paper will describe how private social media messages are these days, and how accurate the information that is gathered from this large amount of data is. However, there is no detailed literature review available that covers the different aspects of privacy of social media content. In this paper we focus on Twitter messages by first performing a literature review covering related work all ...

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Weakly Supervised User Profile Extraction from Twitter

While user attribute extraction on social media has received considerable attention, existing approaches, mostly supervised, encounter great difficulty in obtaining gold standard data and are therefore limited to predicting unary predicates (e.g., gender). In this paper, we present a weaklysupervised approach to user profile extraction from Twitter. Users’ profiles from social media websites su...

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Dr. Abdur Chowdhury serves as Twitter’s Chief Scientist. Prior to that, Dr. Chowdhury co-founded Summize, a real-time search engine sold to Twitter in 2008. Dr. Chowdhury has held positions at AOL as their Chief Architect for Search, Georgetown’s Computer Science Department and University of Maryland’s Institute for Systems Research. His research interest lays in Information Retrieval focusing ...

Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter

With the recent rise in popularity and scale of social media, a growing need exists for systems that can extract useful information from huge amounts of data. We address the issue of detecting influenza epidemics. First, the proposed system extracts influenza related tweets using Twitter API. Then, only tweets that mention actual influenza patients are extracted by the support vector machine (S...