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There is no doubting the incredible impact of Twitter on how we communicate, access and share information online. Currently users can follow other users or hashtags in order to benefit from a stream of data from people they trust or on topics that matter to them. However at the moment the following granularity of Twitter means that users cannot limit their information streams to a set of topics by a given user. Thus, even the most carefully curated information streams can quickly become polluted with extraneous content. In this paper we describe our initial steps to improve this situation by proposing a profiling approach that can be used for information filtering purposes as well as recommendation purposes. First, we demonstrate that it is feasible to automatically profile the interests of users by using machine learning techniques to classify the pages that they share via their tweets. We then go on to describe how this profiling mechanism can be used to organise and filter Twitter information streams. In particular we present a system that provides for a more fine-grained way to follow users on specific topics and thereby refine the standard Twitter timeline based on a user’s core topical interests.
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Esparza, S.G., O’Mahony, M.P., Smyth, B. (2012). Towards the Profiling of Twitter Users for Topic-Based Filtering. In: Bramer, M., Petridis, M. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIX. SGAI 2012. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4739-8_22
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