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Profiling cryptocurrency influencers on social media: a comparative study using SetFit and DistilBERT

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  • Rebeh Imane Ammar Aouchiche
  • Fatima Boumahdi
  • Mohamed Abdelkarim Remmide
  • Amina Guendouz

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Nowadays, in a world dominated by social media, the content people share can have significant effects, particularly in the domain of cryptocurrency, where investors often turn to online advice. The instability of the cryptocurrency market is well known, and some social media individuals wield considerable influence over this market through their posts. Our study focuses on categorising these influential cryptocurrency influencers based on their English tweets, with the challenge of limited data availability. Two transformer-based models: sentence transformer fine-tuning (SetFit) and distilled BERT (DistilBERT), were used to classify cryptocurrency influencers into three subtasks: profile authors based on their degree of influence, main interests, and message intent. These models were evaluated on a Twitter-based dataset from PAN2023. The results show that SetFit achieved the best performance with a 0.82 F1-score, followed closely by DistilBERT with a 0.80 F1-score.

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  • Rebeh Imane Ammar Aouchiche & Fatima Boumahdi & Mohamed Abdelkarim Remmide & Amina Guendouz, 2026. "Profiling cryptocurrency influencers on social media: a comparative study using SetFit and DistilBERT," International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 18(1), pages 1-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijdmmm:v:18:y:2026:i:1:p:1-14
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