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Towards a methodology for examining Twitter follower accession

Posted on 06 May 2014 with 0 comments

The analysis of content and meta–data has long been the subject of most Twitter studies, however such research only tells part of the story of the development of Twitter as a platform. In this work, the authors introduce a methodology to determine the growth patterns of individual users of the platform, a technique they refer to as follower accession, and through a number of case studies consider the factors which lead to follower growth, and the identification of non–authentic followers.

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