
We proposed a directed weighted user-content bipartite graph model.Our model measures influence by combined both the structural properties of the network and the contents the users published.An iterative algorithm is designed to compute two scores: the users' Influence and boards' Reach.The experiments verify the model can discover most influential users and popular contents effectively. With the rising of online social networks, influence has been a complex and subtle force to govern users' behaviors and relationship formation. Therefore, how to precisely identify and measure influence has been a hot research direction. Differentiating from existing researches, we are devoted to combining the status of users in the network and the contents generated from these users to synthetically measure the influence diffusion. In this paper, we firstly proposed a directed user-content bipartite graph model. Next, an iterative algorithm is designed to compute two scores: the users' Influence and boards' Reach. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments on the dataset extracted from the online community Pinterest. The experimental results verify our proposed model can discover most influential users and popular broads effectively and can also be expected to benefit various applications, e.g., viral marketing, personal recommendation, information retrieval, etc.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 47 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% |
