If any researchers interested in social sciences and social media platforms are interested, I'm collecting a dataset on kobe with Twitter data. From what I can see, this is the single largest celebrity death that I've seen on Twitter. The volume is just unreal.
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It will take me around 4-5 days just to collect all the data, but there are sustained volumes approaching 1,000-1,500 tweets per second after the news broke on his death.
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I'd have to go back and look at that one. When did Jobs pass away?
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Twitter data wont be enough. Southern California will be mourning for a long time 💛💜
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I’d be interested in looking at information propagation (RT diffusion). I might compare it to terror attacks and see if the info prop behaviour has similar patterns.
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Also incredibly interested. How are you disambiguating Kobe the celebrity from other linguistic usage though?
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