View source for User behavior study of microblogging systems

== Details ==
{{Project Description
|supervisor=[http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/people/yang_chen Yang Chen]
|duration=6 months
|type=Student Project
|status=open
}}

== Description ==
Kwak ''et al.'' have crawled the entire Twitter site and obtained 41.7 million user profiles, 1.47 billion social relations, 4,262 trending topics, and 106 million tweets. In this student project, we are going to use their data set to study the user behavior of the microblogging users based on the data set they crawled.

== References ==
* Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue Moon. What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?.  19th World-Wide Web (WWW) Conference, April 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina [http://an.kaist.ac.kr/traces/WWW2010.html]
* Fabricio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Meeyoung Cha, and Virgilio Almeida. Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2009. [http://an.kaist.ac.kr/~mycha/docs/imc126-benevenuto.pdf]
* F. Schneider, A. Feldmann, B. Krishnamurthy, W. Willinger. Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective. In Proc. of ACM IMC, 2009. [http://www2.research.att.com/~bala/papers/imc09-osnf.pdf]