The use of online social networks has made significant progress in recent years as the use
of the Internet has become widespread worldwide as the technological infrastructure and the …

Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

Online social network such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are increasingly becoming
the go-to medium for users to acquire information and discuss what is happening globally …

The tremendous growth of event dissemination over social networks makes it very
challenging to accurately discover and track exciting events, as well as their evolution and …

The proliferation of social networking services has resulted in a rapid growth of their user
base, spanning across the world. The collective information generated from these online …

Recent years have witnessed the tremendous growth of the online social media. In China,
Weibo, a Twitter-like service, has attracted more than 500 million users in less than five …

Twitter has become one of the largest microblogging platforms for users around the world to
share anything happening around them with friends and beyond. A bursty topic in Twitter is …

Because of T witter's popularity and the viral nature of information dissemination on T witter,
predicting which T witter topics will become popular in the near future becomes a task of …

Micro-blogging services, such as Twitter, and location-based social network applications
have generated short text messages associated with geographic information, posting time …

Social networks are quickly becoming the primary medium for discussing what is happening
around real-world events. The information that is generated on social platforms like Twitter …