TwitterEcho - A distributed focused crawler to support open research with twitter data

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

bosnjak, m (Author) Other; oliveira, e (Author) FEUP; martins, j (Author) Other; rodrigues, em (Author) Other; sarmento, l (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Pages: 1233-1239

21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12

Lyon, 16 April 2012 through 20 April 2012

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Authenticus ID: P-008-3WF

DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188266

Abstract (EN): Modern social network analysis relies on vast quantities of data to infer new knowledge about human relations and communication. In this paper we describe TwitterEcho, an open source Twitter crawler for supporting this kind of research, which is characterized by a modular distributed architecture. Our crawler enables researchers to continuously collect data from particular user communities, while respecting Twitter's imposed limits. We present the core modules of the crawling server, some of which were specifically designed to focus the crawl on the Portuguese Twittosphere. Additional modules can be easily implemented, thus changing the focus to a different community. Our evaluation of the system shows high crawling performance and coverage. Copyright is held by the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7