What is Twitter Data?
Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can post and read tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
I'm taking a leap of faith here and assuming that some of you might have known or used Twitter. A social media service, Twitter has become quite a mainstream media in which people give their short opinion about basically anything.
There are quite a few pieces of information that can be obtained from a Tweet!
As you can see from the picture above, you can see :
- Real name and user name of the person tweeting
- The text of tweets
- The time of the tweets
- The number of how many times the specific tweet was retweeted / reshared and likes by other users
- And many more..
All of this information provides a lot of insight that can be useful for your research.