TwitterFeedRank Nick Flacco Dalton Huynh Abhishek Jha Phong Lam
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Overview TwitterFeedRank provides an easier and more powerful way of searching tweets Keyword Search Personalized Search
Crawler Crawl with Twitter API 20,000 requests per hour Weekly crawls Link Graph for computing rank
Indexer Lucene Indexing and Searching Feeds as Documents (UserId, screen name) (UserId, FeedRank) (UserId, TweetId, Tweet/Status, Date)
Ranker Computed from link graph created during crawl PageRank for Twitter Feeds Index each user with their computed rank in Lucene Results are sorted using FeedRank
Analyzer Find tweets from your friends-of-friends Use common friends among your friends
Web UI Features Keyword Search Personalized Search Technologies PHP, Lucene (Java)
Future Work Improved Feed Recommendation Using the 16 categories in OpenDirectory to classify tweets Train Naive-Bayes Classifier Predict category of a given tweet Improve FeedRank Factor in number of retweets and/or mentions