Analyzing Twitter Data
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Twitter is a social network with over 250 million active users who collectively generate more than 500 million Tweets each day. In social sciences research, Twitter has earned the focus of extensive research largely due to its openness in sharing its public data. Twitter exposes an extensive API which can be used to collect a wealth of social data. In this chapter we will introduce the reader to these APIs and discuss how they can be used to conduct social sciences research. We will also outline some is2 Analyzing Twitter Data sues that arise when using these APIs, and some strategies for collecting datasets that can give insight into a particular crisis or event.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015