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TWIMPACT 2011Real-Time Twitter Analysis

TWIMPACT analysis

~ 2 ms

data delivery

~ 1000 ms

1.3b tweets35.8m users

11 GB

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y

1 day1 s 1 minute 1 hour

503000

180,0005M

3.3TB0.6 TB

© 2011 TWIMPACT UG (haftungsbeschränkt)in cooperation with Berlin University of Technology

880,000page links

2,500

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14,500

102,000each day

5,400,000retweets

140,000 media links

TWIMPACT analyses the data by

1. parsing each JSON message2. extracting meta-data for users, tweets, location ...3. analyzing the tweet text language4. matching a retweet in previous tweets5. extracting mentions users, hashtags and links6. updating retweeted and mentioned user relations7. updating trend counts for all artifacts8. updating indices (full-text, users, all artifacts)9. removing irrelevant data from memory

retweet activity

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teenlifefeel

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viatumblr retweetifs

revrunwisdom

top 20 impact most retweeted

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@wendys RT for a good cause. Each Retweet sends 50¢ to help kids in foster care. #TreatItFwd

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@mentionto #MentionTo your friend who's never be on time and lazy to do anything.

@justinbieber life has it's ups and downs but u guys r always there 4 me. i will make my mistakes but i promise 2 continue 2 grow with u and try 2 do rt

additional graphs and indices identify relations between users, retweets, mentions, languages and

many other artifacts 500,000user relations

15,000,000user/rt relations

1,000historic snapshots

every 8 hours

Mikio L. Braun, Matthias L. Jugel, Klaus-Robert Müller

http://twimpact.comhttp://beta.twimpact.com/ely/