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    Finding useful users on twitter : twittomender the followee recommender
    This paper examines an application for finding pertinent friends (followees) on Twitter. Whilst Twitter provides a great basis for receiving information, we believe a potential downfall lies in the lack of an effective way in which users of Twitter can find other Twitter users to follow. We apply several recommendation techniques to build a followee recommender for Twitter. We evaluate a variety of different recommendation strategies, using real-user data, to demonstrate the potential for this recommender system to correctly identify and promote interesting users who are worth following.
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    Recommending user connections by utilising the real-time Web
    (University College Dublin. School of Computer Science and Informatics, 2014) ;
    Social media services, such as Facebook and Twitter, thrive on user engagement around the active sharing and passive consumption of content. Many of these services have become an important way to discover relevant and interesting information in a timely manner. But to make the most of this aspect of these services it is important that users can locate and follow the most useful producers of relevant content. As these services have continued to grow rapidly this has become more and more of a challenge, especially for new users. This problem can be solved in principle by constructing a recommendation system based on a model of users' preferences and interests to recommend new users worth following.In this thesis we propose a recommendation framework for friend finding. It is capable of integrating different sources of user preference information that is available through services such as Twitter and related services. It is also designed to provide a natural partitioning of user interests based on those topics that are core to the user versus those that are more peripheral and the social connections linked with the user. This provides access to a range of different types of recommendation strategies that may be more helpful in focusing the search for relevant users according to different types of user interests. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by evaluating recommendation quality across large sets of real-world users.
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