TBAM: Towards An Agent-Based Model to Enrich Twitter Data

Usman Anjum, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Prashant Krishnamurthy

Twitter (one example of microblogging) is widely being used by researchers to understand human behavior, specifically how people behave when a significant event occurs and how it changes user microblogging patterns. The changing microblogging behavior can reveal patterns that can help in detecting real-world events. However, the Twitter data that is available has limitations, such as, it is incomplete and noisy and the samples are irregular. In this paper we create a model, called Twitter Behavior Agent-Based Model (TBAM) to simulate Twitter pattern and behavior using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM). The generated data from ABM simulations can be used in place or to complement the real-world data toward improving the accuracy of event detection. We confirm the validity of our model by finding the cross-correlation between the real data collected from Twitter and the data generated using TBAM.

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