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#mytweet via Instagram: Exploring User Behaviour across Multiple Social Networks
We study how users of multiple online social networks (OSNs) employ and share
information by studying a common user pool that use six OSNs - Flickr, Google+,
Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube. We analyze the temporal and topical
signature of users' sharing behaviour, showing how they exhibit distinct
behaviorial patterns on different networks. We also examine cross-sharing
(i.e., the act of user broadcasting their activity to multiple OSNs
near-simultaneously), a previously-unstudied behaviour and demonstrate how
certain OSNs play the roles of originating source and destination sinks.Comment: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks
Analysis and Mining, 2015. This is the pre-peer reviewed version and the
final version is available at
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/publications/2015/lim-et-al-15.pd
U.S. Religious Landscape on Twitter
Religiosity is a powerful force shaping human societies, affecting domains as
diverse as economic growth or the ability to cope with illness. As more
religious leaders and organizations as well as believers start using social
networking sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook), online activities become important
extensions to traditional religious rituals and practices. However, there has
been lack of research on religiosity in online social networks. This paper
takes a step toward the understanding of several important aspects of
religiosity on Twitter, based on the analysis of more than 250k U.S. users who
self-declared their religions/belief, including Atheism, Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Specifically, (i) we examine the
correlation of geographic distribution of religious people between Twitter and
offline surveys. (ii) We analyze users' tweets and networks to identify
discriminative features of each religious group, and explore supervised methods
to identify believers of different religions. (iii) We study the linkage
preference of different religious groups, and observe a strong preference of
Twitter users connecting to others sharing the same religion.Comment: 10 page
User profiles matching for different social networks based on faces embeddings
It is common practice nowadays to use multiple social networks for different
social roles. Although this, these networks assume differences in content type,
communications and style of speech. If we intend to understand human behaviour
as a key-feature for recommender systems, banking risk assessments or
sociological researches, this is better to achieve using a combination of the
data from different social media. In this paper, we propose a new approach for
user profiles matching across social media based on embeddings of publicly
available users' face photos and conduct an experimental study of its
efficiency. Our approach is stable to changes in content and style for certain
social media.Comment: Submitted to HAIS 2019 conferenc
Automated counter-terrorism
We present a holistic systems view of automated intelligence analysis for counter-terrorism with focus on the behavioural attributes of terrorist groups
Find me if You Can: Aligning Users in Different Social Networks
Online Social Networks allow users to share experiences with friends and relatives, make announcements, find news and jobs, and more. Several have user bases that number in the hundred of millions and even billions. Very often many users belong to multiple social networks at the same time under possibly different user names. Identifying a user from one social network on another social network gives information about a user\u27s behavior on each platform, which in turn can help companies perform graph mining tasks, such as community detection and link prediction. The process of identifying or aligning users in multiple networks is called network alignment. These similar (or same) users on different networks are called anchor nodes and the edges between them are called anchor links. The network alignment problem aims at finding these anchor links. In this work we propose two supervised algorithms and one unsupervised algorithm using thresholds. All these algorithms use local structural graph features of users and some of them use additional information about the users. We present the performance of our models in various settings using experiments based on Foursquare-Twitter and Facebook-Twitter data (User Identity Linkage Dataset). We show that our approaches perform well even when we use the neighborhood of the users only, and the accuracy improves even more given additional information about a user, such as the username and the profile image. We further show that our best approaches perform better at the HR@1 task than unsupervised and semi-supervised factoid embedding approaches considered earlier for these datasets
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