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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Alek Kolcz, Seattle, WA (US);
Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing recommendations involves obtaining a first topic group (TG) associated with a first expertise topic, the first TG specifying a first plurality of accounts, selecting a second TG that specifies a second plurality of accounts, making a first determination that one of the second plurality of accounts is specified in the first TG, based on the first determination, analyzing the second plurality of accounts to determine whether the second TG is associated with the first expertise topic, based on the analysis making a second determination that the second TG is associated with the first expertise topic, generating a recommendation for a first account based on a third determination that the first account is related to an account in the first plurality of accounts or an account in the second plurality of accounts, and providing the recommendation to the first account.