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#TeamFollowBack: Detection & Analysis of Follow Back Accounts on Social Media
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Mathis Randl, Youssef Attia
Follow back accounts inflate their follower counts by engaging in reciprocal followings. Such accounts manipulate the public and the algorithms by appearing more popular than they…
Shorts vs. Regular Videos on YouTube: A Comparative Analysis of User Engagement and Content Creation Trends
Caroline Violot, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Igor Bilogrevic +1
YouTube introduced the Shorts video format in 2021, allowing users to upload short videos that are prominently displayed on its website and app. Despite having such a large visual…
Analyzing Activity and Suspension Patterns of Twitter Bots Attacking Turkish Twitter Trends by a Longitudinal Dataset
Tuğrulcan Elmas
Twitter bots amplify target content in a coordinated manner to make them appear popular, which is an astroturfing attack. Such attacks promote certain keywords to push them to Twit…
Opinion Mining from YouTube Captions Using ChatGPT: A Case Study of Street Interviews Polling the 2023 Turkish Elections
Tuğrulcan Elmas, İlker Gül
Opinion mining plays a critical role in understanding public sentiment and preferences, particularly in the context of political elections. Traditional polling methods, while usefu…
Measuring and Detecting Virality on Social Media: The Case of Twitter's Viral Tweets Topic
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Stephane Selim, Célia Houssiaux
Social media posts may go viral and reach large numbers of people within a short period of time. Such posts may threaten the public dialogue if they contain misleading content, mak…
The Impact of Data Persistence Bias on Social Media Studies
Tuğrulcan Elmas
Social media studies often collect data retrospectively to analyze public opinion. Social media data may decay over time and such decay may prevent the collection of the complete d…