Pinnacle SMU LARC

Detecting Bursty Topic from Twitter in Realtime.

Overview

Twitter is a huge platform which is full of all kinds of messages. It provides an easy, quick and reliable platform for ordinary users to share anything happening around them with friends and other followers. We think it is an important and timely source to detect bursty topics such as breaking news. And we try to leverage Twitter for detecting real-life bursty topics in realtime.


picture from: http://www.neoformix.com/2008/sg_broganTwitterTopics.png

Members

Wei XIE, Feida ZHU

Dataset

Twitter dataset