Two 1%s don't make a whole: comparing simultaneous samples from twitter's streaming api
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In the case of Twitter, much research relies on APIs that give access to at most 1% of the data.
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- Authors
- Joseph, K., Landwehr, P. M., & Carley, K. M.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Venue
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 75-83
- ISSN
- 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
- 1611-3349
- OpenAlex
- W185581208
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 8.10
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web Data Mining and Analysis
- Keywords
- Twitter Streaming API, sample overlap, sampling bias, technical artifacts, social media data collection, tweet popularity
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