Social Media Link-prediction for Targeted Content Propagation Towards a Creative Economy

Social Network as an area is of immense interest to the researchers and business. With the ever-growing number of user on the social media platform, and increasing requirement to focus on the user group, which can potentially form a community is of utmost importance. In this research, the author hypothesized that the personalized online social media behaviour could be considered for link-prediction signifying whether an individual is connected or has similar interest/behaviour or preference. Thus, identifying individuals with the same preference or interest can help significantly towards Innovative Business Intelligence (IBI) and targeted content penetration across the large scale online social media. This, as a result, can help to accomplish the most effective mobile or internet marketing for business purposes though significant virality features. However, considering it as the motive in this research at first, a large scale online user information was obtained, which comprised different features, including corresponding social behavioural as well as topological traits. Such amalgamation of the different features enabled retrieving sufficient information about an individual to assess its preferences, intend, etc. Thus, with obtained (personalized) features, this research targeted to estimate correlation or association between the different individuals. Considering the above-stated approach in this research, a novel and first of its kind approach was developed which focused on exploiting advance software computing technologies, including machine learning to yield optimal social media link-prediction. In this approach, at first, a large scale online social media data was taken into consideration which encompassed each user’s topological as well as behavioural features. Thus, with the obtained features at first different essential feature set were obtained. This, as a result, can help to get an optimal solution towards content virality over social media for better internet marketing. Keywords: socio-technical, virality, internet, social media, social media analytics, computational social science, marketing applications.