Systems and Methods for Identifying a Target Audience in a Social Data Network

摘要

System and methods performed by a server for determining a target group of users in a social data network, including: obtaining identities of friends from an initial group of users, where a user in the group follows one or more of the friends; determining N number friends that are most frequently occurring amongst the identities of friends from the initial group; for each of the N number friends, obtaining identities of followers following a given one of the N friends; filtering out one or more followers from the identities of the followers that follow less than X number of the N number of friends, where X≦N; and including remaining ones of the identities of the followers in the target group of users

主权项

1. A method performed by a server system for determining a target group of users in a social data network, the method comprising:
the server system obtaining identities of friends from a first group of users, where a user in the first group follows one or more of the friends, and the friends and the first group of users are associated with user accounts in the social data network; the server system determining N number friends that are most frequently occurring amongst the identities of friends from the first group of users; for each of the N number friends, the server system obtaining identities of followers following a given one of the N friends; the server system filtering out one or more followers from the identities of the followers that follow less than X number of the N number of friends, where X≦N; and the server system storing remaining ones of the identities of the followers as part of the target group of users in memory of the server system.