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The increasing popularity of social media articles and microblogging systems is changing the way onlineinformation is producer. Twitter and YouTube. Twitter is a micro-blogging service, which has gained popularity as amajor news source and information dissemination agent over last few years. Users on Twitter, create their public /private profile and post messages (also referred as tweets or statuses) via the profile. Users are both content publishersand content consumers. Since information is produced and shared by common users, who usually have a limited domainknowledge, and due to an exponential growth of the available information, assessing online content trustworthiness isvital. Several works in the state of the art approach this issue and propose different models to estimate online contenttrustworthiness, content relevance and user influence. In this paper we investigate the most relevant research worksinthis domain, highlighting their common characteristics and peculiaritiesin terms of content source type, trust-relatedcontent features, trust evaluation methods and performance assessment techniques. The tweets are considered mainsource of information for this study.The maximum length of the tweet can be 140 characters. Each post on Twitter ischaracterized by two main components: the tweet (content and associated metadata) and the user (source) who postedthe tweet. Studies have explored and highlighted the role of Twitter as a news media and a platform to gauge publicsentiments.

E.Aarthi, P.Yogalakshmi, P.Muthulakshmi, “Online media content trustworthiness and influence: an introductory survey”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 952-957, January 2018.