NDLI: On the endogenesis of Twitter's Spritzer and Gardenhose sample streams

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kergl, D. Roedler, R. Seeber, S.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Many recent publications deal with trend analysis, event detection or opinion mining on social media data. Twitter, as the most important microblogging service, is often in the focus of these works, as it offers free access to big volumes of data. The free access, on that many publications rely, is composed of a random subset of the complete public status stream. Publications rely particularly on the uniform distribution of tweets in this sample stream, and therefore, till today, one has to trust in the statement of Twitter that the sample data is indeed uniformly $distributed^{1}.$ In our research on the technical properties of Twitter's streaming data, we found evidence for discovering the method used by Twitter to decide which tweets will show up in the random sample streams. A deeper insight into this process leads to the possible reasons of why Twitter chose the presented sampling method. For this purpose we provide an overview of how Twitter's unique tweet IDs are generated and explain the regularities of each part of a tweet ID. This results also in some information about the tweet ID generating infrastructure of Twitter and what kind of knowledge can possibly be derived from small features like the tweet ID.
Starting Page	357
Ending Page	364
File Size	320049
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479958771
DOI	10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921610
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-08-17
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Conferences Instruction sets Media Twitter Market research Data mining
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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