… to identify influential users in online social networks on the basis of a simple metric of their
activity level. In this article, we consider a user “influential” in a social network if his or her …

… of the phenomenon Online Social Networks (OSN), identifying influential users in OSN has
… users’ connectivity and activity but hardly consider further characteristics of influential users. …

… We define an empirical measure of influence as the number of in-network votes a user’s post
… Our objective is to find the influence model that best predicts influential users in this network…

… We propose a new algorithm to select the most influential users. In the proposed approach,
the neighbors of the nodes belonging to the seed set are also interested in the information, …

… These methods do not usually pay attention to the interactions among users, and also …
influential users in a social network by considering those interactions that exist among the users…

… users. Due to the explored limitations, we believe a more accurate methodology for identifying
influential users in online social networks is … factors in measuring influence. Our model, …

… identify the influential users or leaders within a topic, we can first obtain a measure of the
influence of online posts on that topic, and then we find the authors of the most influential posts. …

… Other than being not focused on social groups, the great majority of the approaches concerning
OSNs’ influential users do not even deal with the prediction of future influential users, but …

… social network and some are based on hyperlink and later we discuss the new approach to
… the influential user which is based on the activities that the users performs in social networks…

… Second, we examine the issue of influence in the context of social networks, where … social
networks and their consequences for influential users. 3 Facets of Influence in Social Networks …