Title
When is it biased?: assessing the representativeness of twitter's streaming API
Abstract
Twitter shares a free 1% sample of its tweets through the "Streaming API". Recently, research has pointed to evidence of bias in this source. The methodologies proposed in previous work rely on the restrictive and expensive Firehose to find the bias in the Streaming API data. We tackle the problem of finding sample bias without costly and restrictive Firehose data. We propose a solution that focuses on using an open data source to find bias in the Streaming API.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2567948.2576952
WWW (Companion Volume)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
open data source,expensive firehose,streaming api data,sample bias,restrictive firehose data,twitter share,previous work,streaming api
Journal
abs/1401.7909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
28
1.39
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fred Morstatter152831.21
Jürgen Pfeffer234626.57
Huan Liu312695741.34