Evaluating Twitter Credibility

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  • Anuradha HK, Arjun J Naik, Chandana N, Lalitha L.A

Abstract

Twitter is an American blogging site at micro level and social networking service on which people on the user side post and communicate with pieces of information known as “Tweets”. Ever since Internet usage increased, fake news has also evolved. Fake news can be defined as a news that is false or unreal and that is diffused intentionally or unintentionally. For each Tweet, Credibility can be examined based on two features. The consistency of the information contained in the tweet and its URL in mentoring an event and the number of times the tweet has been retweeted. Credibility is used to detect false information or rumour. In this paper we have proposed the framework to find the credibility of tweets using scores or points given to both twitter user and the tweet.

Keywords:  Twitter, Credibility, Tweetscore, Userscore

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2020-05-16

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