Twitter, Inc. (delisted)
METHOD OF NEWS EVALUATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS

Abstract:

A method of news evaluation in social media networks having a plurality of socially related users, the method comprising the steps of determining a social graph at least with respect to users and their social relations; determining a news message to be evaluated; determining a propagation behaviour of the news message in the social graph; evaluating the news message in view of its determined propagation behaviour in the social graph.