Where in the world is my tweet: Detecting irregular removal patterns on Twitter.

ABSTRACT: Twitter data are becoming an important part of modern political science research, but key aspects of the inner workings of Twitter streams as well as self-censorship on the platform require further research. A particularly important research agenda is to understand removal rates of politically charged tweets. In this article, I provide a strategy to understand removal rates on Twitter, particularly on politically charged topics. First, the technical properties of Twitter's API that may distort the analyses of removal rates are tested. Results show that the forward stream does not capture every possible tweet -between 2 and 5 percent of tweets are lost on average, even when the volume of tweets is low and the firehose not needed. Second, data from Twitter's streams are collected on contenti

SUBMITTER: Timoneda JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6157815 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature