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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY. 25 th April 2011. CMSC 601 – Research Skills. Analysis of Twitter Data. NIKHIL PURANIK. Image adopted from slides by Akshay Java. A Bird’s Eye View: Twitter is a micro blogging website.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY 25th April 2011 CMSC 601 – Research Skills Analysis of Twitter Data NIKHIL PURANIK
A Bird’s Eye View: Twitter is a micro blogging website. Used by millions of people all over the world A big repository for real time information Twitter asks the question :“what is happening?” The user enters the information in 140 characters or less. This information can be anything , what is on user’s mind, opinions about a topic, political views, reactions about events.