Data Collection
Data was collected for ~8 days, June 27, 3pm, to July 5, 8:30am. Data was sampled using the Twitter Search API once every 15 minutes, 96 samples per day, 744 total samples, 73913 total tweets (some duplicates), 65196 unique user accounts. Each sample requested the maximum number of tweets allowed for free which is 100 tweets. Some samples fell short of this maximum (see figure for Tweet Counts Per Sample). Tweet data was saved as text files in json format.
Time vs. Top Tweeters
Download ANTz visualization of time vs. top tweeters for Windows.
Download iPython Notebook to create ANTz visualization.
This dataset showed a much more homogeneous distribution of tweets and retweets than any of the other datasets.
