Determining influential users in blogosphere - A survey

In the micro blogging networks, there exist users or actors who attract different users of the network towards the documents posted by him or her. Under this attraction, different users utilize the different blog services and usage of these services becomes viral. In this paper, we are referring these users as Influential Users. These users compel other users to actively use the different services provided by micro blogging networks upon their posted documents. In this paper, we survey various methodologies for the determination of these influential users and later we discuss about its future scope.