Social-Media Activity Forecasting with Exogenous Information Signals

Kin Wai Ng, Sameera Horawalavithana, Adriana Iamnitchi

Due to their widespread adoption, social media platforms present an ideal environment for studying and understanding social behavior, especially on information spread. Modeling social media activity has numerous practical implications such as supporting efforts to analyze strategic information operations, designing intervention techniques to mitigate disinformation, or delivering critical information during disaster relief operations. In this paper we propose a modeling technique that forecasts topic-specific daily volume of social media activities by using both exogenous signals, such as news or armed conflicts records, and endogenous data from the social media platform we model. Empirical evaluations with real datasets from two different platforms and two different contexts each composed of multiple interrelated topics demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution.

picture_as_pdf flag

Knowledge Graph

arrow_drop_up

Comments

Sign up or login to leave a comment