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Recommending Targeted Strangers from Whom to Solicit Information on Social Media
Jalal Mahmud, Michelle X. Zhou, Nimrod Megiddo +2
We present an intelligent, crowd-powered information collection system that automatically identifies and asks target-ed strangers on Twitter for desired information (e.g., cur-rent…
Who Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information
Kyumin Lee, Jalal Mahmud, Jilin Chen +2
There has been much effort on studying how social media sites, such as Twitter, help propagate information in different situations, including spreading alerts and SOS messages in a…
Optimizing The Selection of Strangers To Answer Questions in Social Media
Jalal Mahmud, Michelle Zhou, Nimrod Megiddo +2
Millions of people express themselves on public social media, such as Twitter. Through their posts, these people may reveal themselves as potentially valuable sources of informatio…