Evaluating an impact of a user's content utilized in a social network

A computer program product for evaluating an impact of a user's content utilized in a social network, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code comprising the programming instructions for:

• analyzing a document posted on a social network environment, wherein said document comprises a written communication that is posted on said social network environment;
• generating a hash value for a portion or an entirety of said document;
• determining whether said generated hash value matches any previously stored hash values;
• detecting content in said document posted on said social network environment being reused by a second user in response to said generated hash value matching a previously stored hash value;
• identifying an author of said content by mapping said author to said previously stored hash value that matches said generated hash value;
• incrementing a first counter keeping track of a number of times said content has been adopted in derivative works, wherein said derivative works are works based on or derived from said content;
• incrementing a second counter keeping track of a number of times said second user reuses said author's content;
• generating an impact score representing an ability of said author to influence other users to adopt said content in derivative works of said other users based on said number of times said content has been adopted in said derivative works;
• generating an influence score representing said author's ability to influence said second user to utilize said author's content based on said number of times said second user reuses said author's content;
• and
• providing social credit to said author of said content using said impact score.

A system, comprising:

• a memory unit for storing a computer program for evaluating an impact of a user's content utilized in a social network;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory unit, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program instructions of the computer program comprising:
• analyzing a document posted on a social network environment, wherein said document comprises a written communication that is posted on said social network environment;
• generating a hash value for a portion or an entirety of said document;
• determining whether said generated hash value matches any previously stored hash values;
• detecting content in said document posted on said social network environment being reused by a second user in response to said generated hash value matching a previously stored hash value;
• identifying an author of said content by mapping said author to said previously stored hash value that matches said generated hash value;
• incrementing a first counter keeping track of a number of times said content has been adopted in derivative works, wherein said derivative works are works based on or derived from said content;
• incrementing a second counter keeping track of a number of times said second user reuses said author's content;
• generating an impact score representing an ability of said author to influence other users to adopt said content in derivative works of said other users based on said number of times said content has been adopted in said derivative works;
• generating an influence score representing said author's ability to influence said second user to utilize said author's content based on said number of times said second user reuses said author's content;
• and
• providing social credit to said author of said content using said impact score.