User behavior study of microblogging systems

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Details

Supervisor: Yang Chen
Duration: 6 months
Type: Student Project
Status: open


Description

Kwak et al. has 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.

References

  • "What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?". Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue Moon. 19th World-Wide Web (WWW) Conference, April 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina [1]