most citedWho Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information

45 citations · 59 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SI2014

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…

cs.SI201445 cited

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…

cs.SI20147 cited

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…

cs.SI20141 cited

Why Do You Spread This Message? Understanding Users Sentiment in Social Media Campaigns

Jalal Mahmud, Huiji Gao

Twitter has been increasingly used for spreading messages about campaigns. Such campaigns try to gain followers through their Twitter accounts, influence the followers and spread m…

cs.SI20146 cited

Home Location Identification of Twitter Users

Jalal Mahmud, Jeffrey Nichols, Clemens Drews

We present a new algorithm for inferring the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region, using the content of…