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Can anyone tell what exactly the 144 pieces of metadata Twitter has about us are? I assume most of these are available to Twitter only, correct?

• yorwba 8y ago
  From the paper: We define metadata as the information available pertaining to a Twitter post. This is information that describes the context on which the post was shared. Apart from the 140 character message, each tweet contains about 144 fields of metadata. Each of these fields provides additional information about: the account from which it was posted; the post (e.g. time, number of views); other tweets contained within the message; various entities (e.g. hashtags, URLs, etc); and the information of any users directly mentioned in it. ... For data collection, we used the Twitter Streaming Public API (Twitter, Inc. 2018). Our population is a random sample of the tweets posted between October 2015 and January 2016 (inclusive). During this period we collected approximately 151,215,987 tweets corresponding 11,668,319 users. However, for the results presented here we considered only users for which we collected more than 200 tweets. Our final dataset contains tweets generated by 5,412,693 users.