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'''Love the rainbow. Fear the rainbow.''' The fun of doing research on Twitter is that there is such so much heterogeniety. Twitter breaks up the account and Tweet data into over 200 different categories. Many of these categories are themselves hugely diverse. | '''Love the rainbow. Fear the rainbow.''' The fun of doing research on Twitter is that there is such so much heterogeniety. Twitter breaks up the account and Tweet data into over 200 different categories. Many of these categories are themselves hugely diverse. | ||
Scientific Twitter research = Big work, small claims. '''For the reasons above, expect to do a lot of leg work to get meaningful insights out of Twitter data. Also expect that those insights may be very''' circumspect. | |||
'''Don’t go easy on other Twitter researchers'''. The above advice might seem like Research 101 advice, we see these mistakes over and over in published papers. | '''Don’t go easy on other Twitter researchers'''. The above advice might seem like Research 101 advice, we see these mistakes over and over in published papers. | ||
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