A few chirps about twitter Export

@inproceedings{Krishnamurthy08, abstract = {Web 2.0 has brought about several new applications that have enabled arbitrary subsets of users to communicate with each other on a social basis. Such communication increasingly happens not just on Facebook and MySpace but on several smaller network applications such as Twitter and Dodgeball. We present a detailed characterization of Twitter, an application that allows users to send short messages. We gathered three datasets (covering nearly 100,000 users) including constrained crawls of the Twitter network using two different methodologies, and a sampled collection from the publicly available timeline. We identify distinct classes of Twitter users and their behaviors, geographic growth patterns and current size of the network, and compare crawl results obtained under rate limiting constraints.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Krishnamurthy, Balachander and Gill, Phillipa and Arlitt, Martin}, booktitle = {WOSP '08: Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks}, citeulike-article-id = {3334885}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1397741}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1397735.1397741}, doi = {10.1145/1397735.1397741}, isbn = {978-1-60558-182-8}, keywords = {fun, internet, twitter}, location = {Seattle, WA, USA}, pages = {19--24}, posted-at = {2009-06-30 13:32:20}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A few chirps about twitter}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1397735.1397741}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - Krishnamurthy08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3334885 N2 - Web 2.0 has brought about several new applications that have enabled arbitrary subsets of users to communicate with each other on a social basis. Such communication increasingly happens not just on Facebook and MySpace but on several smaller network applications such as Twitter and Dodgeball. We present a detailed characterization of Twitter, an application that allows users to send short messages. We gathered three datasets (covering nearly 100,000 users) including constrained crawls of the Twitter network using two different methodologies, and a sampled collection from the publicly available timeline. We identify distinct classes of Twitter users and their behaviors, geographic growth patterns and current size of the network, and compare crawl results obtained under rate limiting constraints. CY - Seattle, WA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-182-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 24 TI - A few chirps about twitter PB - ACM T2 - WOSP '08: Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks SP - 19 KW - fun KW - internet KW - twitter AU - Krishnamurthy, Balachander AU - Gill, Phillipa AU - Arlitt, Martin PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1397735.1397741 ER -