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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Tweet! – And I Can Tell How Many Followers You Have
Authors : Christine Klotz, Annie Ross, Elizabeth Clark, Craig Martell
Published in: Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Follower relations are the new currency in the social web. User-generated content plays an important role for the tie formation process. We report an approach to predict the follower counts of Twitter users by looking at a small amount of their tweets. We also found a pattern of textual features that demonstrates the correlation between Twitter specific communication and the number of followers. Our study is a step forward in understanding relations between social behavior and language in online social networks.