Methods and systems for identifying markers of coordinated activity in social media movements

Abstract

Methods and systems generally include determining coordinated activity in social media movements on a social media channel. The method includes identifying a plurality of markers of coordinated activity through analysis of campaign signals from the social media movements. The plurality of markers includes a network dimension for representing how accounts are connected, a temporal dimension for representing patterns of messages over time, and a semantic dimension for representing a diversity of topics and meanings of the social media movements. The method includes analyzing the campaign signals indicative of the coordinate activity of the social media movements in the social media campaign including determining users within the social media campaign, determining clusters of users that make up the social media campaign and determining relationships between the users participating in the social media movements, and determining propagation patterns across clusters of users of the social media campaign.