A novel influence prediction method is proposed to deal with the social promotion problem on crowdfunding platforms and to investigate the predictability of social influence for fundraising projects. The proposed method gradually predicts future influence growth of each project based on features extracted in different timestamps from data streams of crowdfunding websites and social networks. Experimental results show that features extracted from aggregate data rather than incremental data are better indicators of the social influence growth
and the method has the highest prediction precision 88.31%. Analysis of features also shows that some features such as the statistic of projects and social influence of promoters are consistently significant within the prediction process. These results provide hints for devising better social promotions.
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