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Copyright (c) 2015 Nicolas Kourtellis

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This code was tested on Linux and Mac-based systems and works appropriately. As mentioned above, please use at your own risk. We cannot provide any sort of guarantees that it will work on your platform and specific settings. Also, we cannot provide any support for you to make it work in case of compilation problems.

If you use this software and its relevant feeatures, please make sure to acknowledge the EU project MULTISENSOR, grant num: 610411.

TwitterCrawler

This repository hosts a set of classes for allowing a user with legitimate Twitter application and user authentication keys to crawl the profile of particular users and compute basic statistics on network and retweeting influence.

To compile and run:

mvn package war:war mvn jetty:run

Testing Services:

Use the "Testing.java" to see examples on how to call the two services and receive the results.

To test the TwitterContributorAnalysisServiceMultiKeys:

This service is called with the "@barackobama" as the screenname input, and various details on this account are extracted. This is an application call and, thus, the keys used can be set to multiple ones to improve somewhat the accuracy of the crawling of interests. The accuracy is by default set to ?, i.e., 60% of the keys available will be used to reach good accuracy of interests (based on friends crawled). The output (using 3 out of 5 API keys):

I found 5 keys to initialize the crawler! Changing twitter crawler: 0 log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (twitter4j.HttpClientImpl). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. Crawling friends of user @barackobama There are 45 of pages of friends to crawl Covered friends 5000 Covered friends 10000 Covered friends 15000 Covered friends 20000 Covered friends 25000 Covered friends 30000 Covered friends 35000 Covered friends 40000 Covered friends 45000 Covered friends 50000 Covered friends 55000 Covered friends 60000 Covered friends 65000 Covered friends 70000 Covered friends 75000 Rate limits reached. Switching crawler! Changing twitter crawler: 1 Covered friends 80000 Covered friends 85000 Covered friends 90000 Covered friends 95000 Covered friends 100000 Covered friends 105000 Covered friends 110000 Covered friends 115000 Covered friends 120000 Covered friends 125000 Covered friends 130000 Covered friends 135000 Covered friends 140000 Covered friends 145000 Covered friends 150000 Rate limits reached. Switching crawler! Changing twitter crawler: 2 Covered friends 155000 Covered friends 160000 Covered friends 165000 Covered friends 170000 Covered friends 175000 Covered friends 180000 Covered friends 185000 Covered friends 190000 Covered friends 195000 Covered friends 200000 Covered friends 205000 Covered friends 210000 Covered friends 215000 Covered friends 220000 Covered friends 225000 Sampled 225000 friends Statuses: 200 NAME: Barack Obama ID: 813286 LANG: en DESCRIPTION: This account is run by Organizing for Action staff. Tweets from the President are signed -bo. SCREENNAME: BarackObama LOCATION: Washington, DC FOLLOWERS: 56892341 FRIENDS: 643991 TWEETS: 13265 INTERESTS: {news=10.0 gaming=10.0 music=20.0 government=40.0 food-drink=10.0 family=10.0} RET. INFLUENCE: 2.5248203651256065E-5 NET. INFLUENCE: 1.9461733397084464 MEN. INFLUENCE: 0.0

To test the TwitterSearchNamesServiceMultiKeys:

This service is called with the "Barack Obama" as the input string and the output returns the top 10 relevant Twitter accounts with this string. This is a user-authenticated call, and thus one key is enough. The output:

Crawling Twitter to discover users relevant to this query: barack obama log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (twitter4j.HttpClientImpl). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. The query returned from that 10 results. Printing the first 10 most relevant: i Name Username ID 1 Barack Obama BarackObama 813286 2 Barack Obama News ObamaNews 14099695 3 Gay Barack Obama GayObama 257094713 4 Plaid Barack Obama Plaid_Obama 102116993 5 Barack Obama barackobama44 27564275 6 Barack Obama ThePresObama 414359892 7 Barack Obama BarakObama__ 181743520 8 Barack Obama theUSpresident 156529187 9 Team Barack Obama TeamBarackObama 141405856 10 Zombie Barack Obama zombama 25400207

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