Where is my tweet?Henok Mengistu

Insight Data Engineering Fellow

Silicon ValleySummer 2016

Motivation

Motivation

But, this number doesn't show how the tweet spreads-out?

But, a re-tweet graph could show

A Demo

http://52.33.140.25/http://www.whereismytweet.online/

The data● An original tweet

{ ….

"text": "McAllen, Texas- 8 miles from U.S. - Mexico border ", "id": 743485792585146368, "user": { "id": 25073877,"screen_name": "realDonaldTrump" },"created_at": "Thu Jun 16 16:50:00 +0000 2016"

…. }

● A re-tweet {…

"text": “McAllen, Texas- 8 miles from U.S. - Mexico border” "screen_name": "trinnitythomps1","created_at": "Thu Jun 16 16:50:13 +0000 2016", "user": {"id": 2894078186}

"retweeted_status":{"id": 743485792585146368}

...}

Data Pipeline

Watches out for a tweet by a specific user

Filter and sort re-tweetsand

put them in Redis

Builds graph

Creates a topic with tweets as messages

● I am Henok– Originally, from Ethiopia

– Currently, a PhD student at the University of Wyoming

● Working on Evolutionary Computation

– I like playing and watching Soccer

– But skiing, not so much so

Thank you!

Queries

● On the re-tweet graph

– who are my audiences? ● Geographically, social groups

– Betweenness centrality ● Who is relevant to spread out my tweet?● Identify influential followers