@Article{, title={Determine the Close Friends for Twitter Users by Analyzing Users Public Data Name}, author={Zena Fawzi Kadem and Khalid Moh. Alzaidi and Haydar Hassan Safi}, journal={Iraqi Journal for Computers and Informatics المجلة العراقية للحاسبات والمعلوماتية}, volume={42}, number={1}, pages={23-29}, year={2016}, abstract={In this paper a new method to extract the closed friends to a certain twitter user is proposed. This algorithm can be used in many applications such as security and marketing. In the proposed algorithm four relation indicators are used. The shared twitter users, the common friends, the common followers and number of “retweeted from” are used to determine the closed friends of a certain twitter user. The great data downloading and mining tool KNIME is used with some R coding. The proposed model could ranks the shared twitter users according to their closeness to a certain twitter user using the four used relation indicator.

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