DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Authors

  • Arshia Arya Microsoft Research India
  • Soham De Ashoka University
  • Dibyendu Mishra Microsoft Research
  • Gazal Shekhawat Microsoft Research
  • Ankur Sharma Microsoft Research
  • Anmol Panda Microsoft Research
  • Faisal Lalani Microsoft Research India
  • Parantak Singh Microsoft Research
  • Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal Microsoft Research India
  • Rynaa Grover Microsoft Research Lab
  • Sachita Nishal Microsoft Research
  • Saloni Dash Microsoft Research
  • Shehla Shora Microsoft Research
  • Syeda Zainab Akbar Microsoft Research
  • Joyojeet Pal University of Michigan Microsoft Research India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19370

Keywords:

Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors, Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery, Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media, Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media

Abstract

Databases of highly networked individuals have been indispensable in studying narratives and influence on social media. To support studies on Twitter in India, we present a systematically categorized database of accounts of influence on Twitter in India, identified and annotated through an iterative process of friends, networks, and self-described profile information, verified manually. We built an initial set of accounts based on the friend network of a seed set of accounts based on real-world renown in various fields, and then snowballed ``friends of friends" multiple times, and rank ordered individuals based on the number of in-group connections, and overall followers. We then manually classified identified accounts under the categories of entertainment, sports, business, government, institutions, journalism, civil society accounts that have independent standing outside of social media, as well as a category of ``digital first" referring to accounts that derive their primary influence from online activity. Overall, we annotated 11580 unique accounts across all categories. The database is useful studying various questions related to the role of influencers in polarization, misinformation, extreme speech, political discourse etc.

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Published

2022-05-31

How to Cite

Arya, A., De, S., Mishra, D., Shekhawat, G., Sharma, A., Panda, A., Lalani, F., Singh, P., Mothilal, R. K., Grover, R., Nishal, S., Dash, S., Shora, S., Akbar, S. Z., & Pal, J. (2022). DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 16(1), 1201-1207. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19370

Issue

Vol. 16 (2022): Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Section

Dataset Papers