Twitter data: What do they represent?

By Axel Bruns, Stefan Stieglitz. 2014

67 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Communication

1. Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda
2. Katrin Weller

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Katharina E. Kinder-Kurlanda
2. Katrin Weller

Citations in the corpus

• Uncovering the Challenges in Collection, Sharing and Documentation: The Hidden Data of Social Media Research? (2021, background): “Due to a lack of information about data collection procedures it is mostly unclear what data provided by the Twitter API is representative of (Bruns and Stieglitz 2014; Morstatter et al. 2014).”
• Accepting the challenges of social media research (2015, background): “But the issues go beyond this: the way data are being sampled may induce certain types of biases (Bruns and Stieglitz, 2014).”