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Twitter is among the commonest sources of data employed in social media research mainly because of its convenient APIs to collect tweets. However, most researchers do not have access to the expensive Firehose and Twitter Historical Archive,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Daniel Gayo-Avello

Since 2006, Twitter's APIs have been rich sources of data for researchers studying social phenomena such as misinformation, public communication, crisis response, and political behavior. However, in 2023, Twitter began heavily restricting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Ryan Murtfeldt , Sejin Paik , Naomi Alterman , Ihsan Kahveci , Jevin D. West

Retrieving information from social networks is the first and primordial step many data analysis fields such as Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis and Machine Learning. Important data science tasks relay on historical data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-28 A. Hernandez-Suarez , G. Sanchez-Perez , K. Toscano-Medina , V. Martinez-Hernandez , V. Sanchez , H. Perez-Meana

Twitter is a social media giant famous for the exchange of short, 140-character messages called "tweets". In the scientific community, the microblogging site is known for openness in sharing its data. It provides a glance into its millions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Fred Morstatter , Jürgen Pfeffer , Huan Liu , Kathleen M. Carley

Twitter has captured the interest of the scientific community not only for its massive user base and content, but also for its openness in sharing its data. Twitter shares a free 1% sample of its tweets through the "Streaming API", a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Fred Morstatter , Jürgen Pfeffer , Huan Liu

With social media datasets being increasingly shared by researchers, it also presents the caveat that those datasets are not always completely replicable. Having to adhere to requirements of platforms like Twitter, researchers cannot…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Arkaitz Zubiaga

The need for a comprehensive study to explore various aspects of online social media has been instigated by many researchers. This paper gives an insight into the social platform, Twitter. In this present work, we have illustrated stepwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Mohammad Muzammil Khan , M. Afshar Alam

Twitter, like many social media and data brokering companies, makes their data available through a search API (application programming interface). In addition to filtering results by date and location, researchers can search for tweets with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Emory Hufbauer , Hana Khamfroush

Twitter has arguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early indicators of citations as well as measures of societal impact.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Stefanie Haustein

Nowadays, researchers have moved to platforms like Twitter to spread information about their ideas and empirical evidence. Recent studies have shown that social media affects the scientific impact of a paper. However, these studies only…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Naman Jain , Mayank Singh

The popularity of the online media-driven social network relation is proven in today's digital era. The many challenges that these emergence has created include a huge growing network of social relations, and the large amount of data which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Mohammad Muzammil Khan , Mohd Arsalan , Aslam Khan , Jamshed Siddiqui , Syed Hamid Hasan , M. Afshar Alam

Twitter continuously tightens the access to its data via the publicly accessible, cost-free standard APIs. This especially applies to the follow network. In light of this, we successfully modified a network sampling method to work…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Felix Victor Münch , Ben Thies , Cornelius Puschmann , Axel Bruns

Twitter is a well-known microblogging social site where users express their views and opinions in real-time. As a result, tweets tend to contain valuable information. With the advancements of deep learning in the domain of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mohiuddin Md Abdul Qudar , Vijay Mago

Twitter has grown to become an important platform to access immediate information about major events and dynamic topics. As one example, recent work has shown that classifiers trained to detect topical content on Twitter can generalize well…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Kasra Safari , Scott Sanner

How can we study social interactions on evolving topics at a mass scale? Over the past decade, researchers from diverse fields such as economics, political science, and public health have often done this by querying Twitter's public API…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Sacha Lévy , Farimah Poursafaei , Kellin Pelrine , Reihaneh Rabbany

In the context of altmetrics, tweets have been discussed as potential indicators of immediate and broader societal impact of scientific documents. However, it is not yet clear to what extent Twitter captures actual research impact. A small…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Natalie Friedrich , Timothy D. Bowman , Wolfgang G. Stock , Stefanie Haustein

Twitter has provided a great opportunity for public libraries to disseminate information for a variety of purposes. Twitter data have been applied in different domains such as health, politics, and history. There are thousands of public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Amir Karami , Matthew Collins

Nowadays, people from all around the world use social media sites to share information. Twitter for example is a platform in which users send, read posts known as tweets and interact with different communities. Users share their daily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Antony Samuels , John Mcgonical

Electoral prediction from Twitter data is an appealing research topic. It seems relatively straightforward and the prevailing view is overly optimistic. This is problematic because while simple approaches are assumed to be good enough, core…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Daniel Gayo-Avello

In recent years researchers have gravitated to social media platforms, especially Twitter, as fertile ground for empirical analysis of social phenomena. Social media provides researchers access to trace data of interactions and discourse…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Peter Cihon , Taha Yasseri
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