Bias_Twitter_Data_Collection

A comparative study on Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs and observing the Bias in Twitter Data Collection

Miscellaneous

• Twitter User's Popularity: "No. of Followers he/she possesses"
• Unique User_IDs and Corresponding count of Followers was studied
• Filters: 'Mexico' as it was trending due to the Earthquake

Statistics

• No. of Tweets collected using Streaming API: 50,375
• No. of Tweets from same set of users: 16,345
• No. of Unique User IDs: 34,025
• Sampling: 2 * 10000 User_IDs