Mining the Boundaries of Social Networks: Crawling Facebook and Twitter for BlogIntelligence

摘要

Today's number of weblogs is higher than ever before and still growing. These blogs are interconnected by numerous links and other diverse connections, generating a series of notable patterns. Weblogs are not isolated and highly connected with other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Thus, we analyze the references and investigate methods to gather data from the social platforms that are interconnected with weblogs. By analyzing the communication flow between weblogs, Facebook and Twitter, we observe that Facebook is mostly used for referencing real people instead of posts. In contrast, tweets are primarily used for information propagation and citation.