Inproceedings,

Two 1%s Don't Make a Whole: Comparing Simultaneous Samples from Twitter's Streaming API

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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, page 75--83. Cham, Springer International Publishing, (2014)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05579-4_10

Abstract

We compare samples of tweets from the Twitter Streaming API constructed from different connections that tracked the same popular keywords at the same time. We find that on average, over 96\% of the tweets seen in one sample are seen in all others. Those tweets found only in a subset of samples do not significantly differ from tweets found in all samples in terms of user popularity or tweet structure. We conclude they are likely the result of a technical artifact rather than any systematic bias.

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