Friday, 5. August 2016

Turkey and his recent coup. A short insight into 10GB of Twitter data: origin, fav. words, time series analysis.


The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the tragedy behind it: twitter was exploding as I watched the news coming in. I was interested in the timeline of tweets, locations and “everything”. I downloaded about 10Gb of twitter data and here is my analysis for everything ‘#turkey’ from Friday till Monday. When I first thought about it and trying to get tweets from the Twitter API I reached any limits quite soon. So how was it possible to get over 10GB of twitter data in just 8hrs?

digital-geography.com

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