Intelligent Categorization of Twitter Friends based on their Tweets

Friends: Persons whom you follow Vamshi Krishna Reddy V Avinash Reddy Palleti IIITB IIITB

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Introduction
In Twitter, you may be following several people, where you need to classify or organize your friends .

Twitter Lists feature is a way to organize the people youre following on Twitter.

Example Lists can be: Art, Technology, Politics etc.,

Terminology: FRIENDS: People whom you follow on Twitter

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Concept of Categorization of friends

As we have seen, the lists can be used to organize your friends.

Normally, we may want our friends to be organized automatically.

So there can be an auto list generator which will categorize the friends list for you based on the kind of tweets they tweet.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
The Auto list generator should be able to check the tweets of your friends and should categorize by identifying the genre they belong to.

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Proposed Solution

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Get the user ids of all friends

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Retrieve tweets of each friend based on his user id

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Extract the words that matter for us(Entities)

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Finding out the Category to which our friend belong to

Consider 4 words among extracted ones, say W, X, Y, Z. and each occurred 10,3,1,2 times respectively.

Now well calculate each categorys score as follows. S(Technology)= 10*Wtech + 3*Xtech + 1*Ytech + 2*Ztech

Where Xtech is the probability of X co-occurring with Technology

Similarly S(News), S(Music), S(Science) etc., are calculated.

This calculation of S() is by considering all the words extracted from all the tweets of a given twitter user.

Among all of categories which has got highest score will be the list into which the user belongs to.

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