@inproceedings{836fd2e656484847a2d5e292925eb2e1,
title = "How {"}Big Vs{"} dominate Chinese microblog: A comparison of verified and unverified users on Sina Weibo",
abstract = "Sina Weibo has become the most popular microblogging platform in the Chinese-speaking community. Verification scheme is a distinctive element of Weibo with an aim to help the public to identify genuine accounts and select trust- worthy information sources. Verified users are also known as {"}Big Vs{"}, who are identified by a verification badge, a capitalised letter {"}V{"} added alongside account name. By comparing statistical characteristics of both verified and un- verified users, this paper presents that a minority of verified users are largely consider as in uentials, who tend to be more central in the networks and play vital roles in keep- ing connectivity as well as network robustness. Although verification scheme is likely to draw more users to become in uentials, user behaviours are still considerably more in- uenced by user roles rather than by verification scheme.",
keywords = "Microblog, Online social network, Sina weibo, Verification",
author = "Ning Wang and James She and Junting Chen",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1145/2615569.2615683",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450326223",
series = "WebSci 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "182--186",
booktitle = "WebSci 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference",
address = "United States",
note = "6th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2014 ; Conference date: 23-06-2014 Through 26-06-2014",
}