Analyzing URL Chatter on Twitter

Project Description

Objectives

• Classify the content of the urls
• Understand user perception of the websites

Motivation

• Search Engine Perspective - How to choose a page which is interesting to the user, given the keywords
• Publisher Perspective - What do people think about the page(URL)

Status

Week 1

• Extracting the Urls from the tweets.
• Recognizing the short/tiny Urls and transforming it into the long Urls.

Week 2

• Creating a table for the Urls and the tweets to store the urls

Future work

1. Make sure the Url is not short by checking it recursively 2. Themes-Entity extraction from the tweets rather than using the present available themes