Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves

Published on Feb 04, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves

Predicting Personality with Twitter (Quercia et al. 2011)
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Predicting personality

with Twitter
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Big-5 personality

and Twitter metrics
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Predict a user's personality

using the three metrics
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Unexpected inference

Disruption of reasonable expectations
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Big-5 (OCEAN)

  • Openness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Neurotisicm
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Online ~ offline

Background research: People are "real" on social media
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myPersonality

Linked to FB and Twitter profiles
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n = 355

Intersection of verified Twitter, FB and myPersonality profiles
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Four user types

  • Listeners – follow a lot
  • Popular – followed a lot
  • Highly-read – listed a lot
  • Influential – Klout score and TIME ranking for celebs
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Social = extraverted + stable

Populars: 0.15 Extrav & -0.19 Neurot.
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Listed = open

Highly read: openness 0.17
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Influence = organization + extraversion

Influentials: org. 0.13 & extrav. 0.15
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Personality predictiong with lin reg

10-fold cross-valid. w/ M5 rules
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RMSE = 0.88 (1-5)

Vs. RMSE = 0.8567 of Netflix challenge
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Personality prediction inputs

  • Following
  • Followers
  • Listed
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OCEAN prediction RMSE

  • O: 0.69 (lowest)
  • C: 0.76
  • E: 0.88 (highest)
  • A: 0.79
  • N: 0.85
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Discussion

Surprised? RMSE low enough?
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Privacy implications

Emre: Foursquare, case pleaserobme.com?
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That's all folks!

Thanks!
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