The Twitter Project Page at MPI-SWS

Welcome to our Twitter project page. The data used in our ICWSM'2010 paper is available for use by the wider community.   Based on Twitter's explicit request, we are only sharing the anonymized topology of the Twitter social network. Please understand that we are not allowed to share any tweet information.   If you have any questions please send us an email at    twitter-contact (at) mpi-sws.org.


Papers


Data Characteristics

Data from our ICWSM 2010 paper is available from the link below.  Our datasets have been anonymized to protect the privacy of the users themselves.  We are only releasing information about the Twitter link structure.

Note that we are unable to release any non-anonymized data.

Data set


 


We are also sharing a set of spammers nodes within this graph from a related project about link farming in Twitter.


Media Coverage


Applications



Members



If you are using our dataset, please use the following BibTeX entry to cite our work.

@inproceedings{icwsm10cha,
  author = {Meeyoung Cha and Hamed Haddadi and Fabricio Benevenuto and Krishna P. Gummadi},
  title = {{Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy}},
  booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)}},
  month = {May},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Washington DC, USA}
}

We are also sharing a set of spammers nodes within this graph from a related project about link farming in Twitter.

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