Content-Based De-anonymisation of Tweets

Various types of personal information are accessible through the Web, and they can be accessed in number of ways. Linking of the personal information obtained with other personal information can lead to a serious violation of privacy. To address this problem, we developed a method that matches the information individuals place in a profile to the information they post on social media sites. It uses an algorithm we developed for quantifying the correlation between a word and a document even if the word itself does not appear in document.