Title
A few chirps about twitter
Abstract
Web 2.0 has brought about several new applications that have enabled arbitrary subsets of users to communicate with each other on a social basis. Such communication increasingly happens not just on Facebook and MySpace but on several smaller network applications such as Twitter and Dodgeball. We present a detailed characterization of Twitter, an application that allows users to send short messages. We gathered three datasets (covering nearly 100,000 users) including constrained crawls of the Twitter network using two different methodologies, and a sampled collection from the publicly available timeline. We identify distinct classes of Twitter users and their behaviors, geographic growth patterns and current size of the network, and compare crawl results obtained under rate limiting constraints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1397735.1397741
Workshop on Software and Performance
Keywords
Field
DocType
current size,smaller network application,distinct class,different methodology,online social networks,twitter user,arbitrary subsets,crawl result,detailed characterization,twitter network,available timeline,measurement,rate limiting
World Wide Web,Computer science,Timeline,Limiting
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
333
40.85
5
Authors
3
Search Limit
100333
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Krishnamurthy, Balachander13675503.69
Phillipa Gill21504114.56
Martin Arlitt33275361.05