Very, very interesting! This paper addresses the important question of how using Twitter's limited streaming API biases results in comparison to Firehose access. Surprisingly they find that for geo-tagged tweets the same amount of tweets is returned for limited bounding boxes.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 morstatter2013sample
%A Morstatter, Fred
%A Pfeffer, Jürgen
%A Liu, Huan
%A Carley, Kathleen M
%B ICWSM
%D 2013
%K analysis api comparison firehose streaming twitter
%T Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose.
@inproceedings{morstatter2013sample,
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author = {Morstatter, Fred and Pfeffer, J{\"u}rgen and Liu, Huan and Carley, Kathleen M},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20ca1ee09dc203c40dc1a68802a91d9b5/becker},
booktitle = {ICWSM},
description = {Very, very interesting! This paper addresses the important question of how using Twitter's limited streaming API biases results in comparison to Firehose access. Surprisingly they find that for geo-tagged tweets the same amount of tweets is returned for limited bounding boxes.},
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keywords = {analysis api comparison firehose streaming twitter},
timestamp = {2014-09-19T03:01:38.000+0200},
title = {Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose.},
year = 2013
}