Abstract

Twitter 1 is a massive social networking site tuned towards fast communication. More than 140 million active users publish over 400 million 140-character “Tweets” every day. 2 Twitter’s speed and ease of publication have made it an important communication medium for people from all walks of life. Twitter has played a prominent role in socio-political events, such as the Arab Spring 3 and the Occupy Wall Street movement. 4 Twitter has also been used to post damage reports and disaster preparedness information during large natural disasters, such as the Hurricane Sandy.
This book is for the reader who is interested in understanding the basics of collecting, storing, and analyzing Twitter data. The first half of this book discusses collection and storage of data. It starts by discussing how to collect Twitter data, looking at the free APIs provided by Twitter. We then goes on to discuss how to store this data for use in …

Date

2014

Authors

Shamanth Kumar, Fred Morstatter, Huan Liu

Pages

90

Publisher

Springer