Twitter Search Methods using Retweet Information

摘要

Recently, as social network services such as Twitter and FaceBook are becoming more popular, a large number of researches have been carried out with various approaches. However, since social network services have been launched recently, its related search methods are still at an early stage of practical service. Thus, most of current web search sites provide a simple search service for social network service posting articles in the order of their upload time. In this paper, we present a novel way of searching informative posting data in Twitter. The proposed method uses both the frequency of retweets and the number of users' followers as major factors of ranking function in order to evaluate the quality of postings.