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. 2022 Oct 3;12(1):145. doi: 10.1007/s13278-022-00972-y

Table 3.

Literature synthesis of Social Media influence

Reference Problem Concept Network Proved
Bao et al. (2013) Predict users’ interests Predict users’ interests: theoretical ideas and integration and time information Micro-blogging The accuracy of users’ interest predictions
Bian et al. (2014a) Predicting Trending Messages and Diffusion Participants Epidemic-oriented, interest-oriented, and social-oriented influence Micro-blogging The superiority of this method
Budak et al. (2014) Inferring User Interests Probabilistic model for people’s preferences throughout time Twitter data The most direct measurement and the top five interesting have a precision of 0,9
Chader et al. (2017) All friends are not equal Closest relationships to the profiled user discover more useful information about him Egocentric networks Relevance of their prior hypothesis
Dang et al. (2016) Emerging topics Use dynamic changes to recognize new trends. Micro-blogging networks Effectiveness
Jia et al. (2017) Inferring User Attributes Integrates behaviors and social graphs, positive and negative Google+ dataset

- AttriInfer outperforms: efficiency and flexibility

- AttriInfer’s optimized version is more flexible

Shah et al. (2018) User Interest Activities are a part of both the user’s and the network’s actions General Quite effective
Han et al. (2015) Alike People, Alike Interests Infer users’ interest similarity: demographic information, friendships, and interests Facebook data More similar likes with similar demographic information(age, location)
Wang et al. (2018) Oriented interest extraction UNITE for collecting interests using textual and structural information Microblog Outperforms the baseline methods significantly
Saez-Trumper et al. (2012) Finding Trendsetters A robust method for rating trendsetters of innovation diffusion Twitter

- The ability to locate a large fraction of trend-setters.

- Nodes having a high degree, the time corrosion function decreases

Xie et al. (2014) Community-aware

-User-generated tags and image correlation.

- The multi-faceted folksonomy graph (MFG)

NUS-wide dataset Outperforms the preceding ones.
Li et al. (2012) User Profiling UDI determines how likely a user can follow others Big volume of data Effectiveness
Xiang et al. (2010) Relationship Strength Relationship strength assessment using a latent variable model Facebook and LinkedIn The graph auto-correlation and classification performance
Zhang et al. (2015) Inferring User Attributes Predict hashtags General Outperform
Zarrinkalam et al. (2017) User interest Inferred interests as a link prediction problem using a graph description model General Significantly improved
Zarrinkalam et al. (2019) User interest prediction

- User interests vary with time.

- Prediction

Twitter Better performance
Wang et al. (2020) The power of opinion

- Propagation trends

- Growth of KOL group networks and UGC keywords

Sina Weibo

- Information propagation

- Slow growth is hitting

Harrigan et al. (2021) Identifying influencers Influential mavens Twitter Decision-makers
Jain and Sinha (2020) Influence measure Weighted Correlated Influence (WCI) Twitter

-The most followers or the highest number of tweets

-Trend-specific influence measurements are insufficient

Mabrouk et al. (2020) Profile Classification

- Hybridization of ontology and linear SVM

- Hybridization of ontology and FSVM.

General Semantic fuzzy SVM classifiers perform well
Chia et al. (2021) Ideal social media influencers

- Combining the social capital and socialization theories with the social theories of learning

- Framework identifying ideal SMIs

General The structural and relational dimensions influenced SMIs’ propensity
Yang et al. (2014) Sybils in the Wild

-Use ground-truth data about the behavior of Sybils in the wild to create a measurement-based, real-time Sybil detector

- Characterization of Sybil graph topology on a major OSN

OSNs

-Still act with no explicit social ties

-Effective

More and Lingam (2019) Optimizing time for influence diffusion A novel methodology based on gradient approach SNAP and SLNDC

The greedy algorithm only finds local minimum influence spread

-Poorly and limited

Arora et al. (2019) Measuring the Social Media Influencer Index A mechanism for measuring the influencer index across popular social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram In the highest accuracy of 93.7% followed by the KNN regression with 93.6%
Mahajan and Kaur (2021) Social influence A novel event recommendation system to suggest an event where the chances of a user’s participation are high IoTCFR- IoT data Better recommendation quality
Hodas et al. (2016) The User’s Personality Influences Content Engagement An experiment combining electroencephalograms, personality surveys, and prompts EEG Data Personality and mood are highly correlated between friends via homophily
Bohacik et al. (2017) Detecting Compromised Accounts An anomaly model trained on the previous login data of users Pokec A real potential
Chaabani and Akaichi (2022) Terrorist communities’ evolution detection

-An Artificial Bee Colony optimization

-BCTTC to track terrorist evolution

the Global Terrorism Database Good results for small and large communities
Aswani et al. (2017) Identifying buzz in social media

-A hybrid artificial bee colony approach is integrated with k-nearest neighbors to identify and segregate buzz

-A proposed hybrid bio-inspired approach

Twitter Successfully giving an accuracy of 98.37%