Twitter continuously tightens the access to its data via the publicly accessible, cost-free standard APIs. This especially applies to the follow network. In light of this, we successfully modified a network sampling method to work efficiently with …
This conference contribution presents a new sampling approach for large follow networks of influential Twitter accounts, discusses first key results of its application to the German Twittersphere, and benchmarks their representativeness. Twitter …
Twitter is used by individuals, grassroots movements, and political and social elites to directly communicate to the public and influence opinion. The platform appears relatively accessible to researchers because the majority of accounts post …