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Linking User Accounts across Social Media Platforms

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Richard Sinnott,

Zijian WangAuthors Info & Claims

BDCAT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies

Pages 18 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/3492324.3494157

Published: 13 January 2022 Publication History

Abstract

To improve social media analysis across diverse platforms, an effective method to evaluate the possibility that different accounts belong to the same users is required. This might be used to support fake news detection or other nefarious activities. In this paper, we present an approach to calculate the probability that different social media accounts on diverse social media platforms belong to the same user. We consider various platform aspects related to user accounts that can be used for user matching including the selected username, the avatar or profile picture, the content of platform posts and related metadata such as the writing style, account binding and use of hyperlinks across platforms. The experimental results showed that the approach is able to distinguish whether the same person has different platform accounts with an F1-score of up to 0.937.

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2. Information systems
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Korepanova AAbramov M(2022)Sift Descriptor for Social Media User Accounts MatchingProceedings of the Sixth International Scientific Conference “Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry” (IITI’22)10.1007/978-3-031-19620-1_14(142-151)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2022
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