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Learning Social Media Analytics with R

You're reading from   Learning Social Media Analytics with R Transform data from social media platforms into actionable business insights

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127524
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raghav Bali Raghav Bali
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Dipanjan Sarkar Dipanjan Sarkar
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Karthik Ganapathy Karthik Ganapathy
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Tushar Sharma Tushar Sharma
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Preface 1. Getting Started with R and Social Media Analytics 2. Twitter – What's Happening with 140 Characters FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing Social Networks and Brand Engagements with Facebook 4. Foursquare – Are You Checked in Yet? 5. Analyzing Software Collaboration Trends I – Social Coding with GitHub 6. Analyzing Software Collaboration Trends II - Answering Your Questions with StackExchange 7. Believe What You See – Flickr Data Analysis 8. News – The Collective Social Media! Index

Understanding Twitter

Understanding Twitter

Twitter's initial design. Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360/

Born in 2006, Twitter is a social networking cum online news service which enables its users to share content in bursts of 140 characters. Over the years, it has evolved like any other successful thing on the Internet and added and/or removed features. Our aim in this chapter is to understand different aspects of this service and use them to draw different insights or solve business problems.

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Twitter was the brainchild of Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. It started as the SMS of the Internet with very simple ideas. You can read the interesting story of its inception here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/twitter-creator.html

As discussed in the previous chapter, social networks are far reaching and dynamic. Twitter allows users to share information using text, images, videos, GIFs, links, hash tags, handles and so on from a variety...

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