Understanding experts’ and novices’ expertise judgment of Twitter users

Presents an empirical study to understand the differences between experts and novices in judging expertise of Twitter authors. Provides design guidelines for micro-blogger recommendation system.

Citation

Liao, V.; Wagner, C.; Pirolli, P.; Fu, W. Understanding experts' and novices' expertise judgment of Twitter users. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012); 2012 May 5-10; Austin, TX.