Database Reference
In-Depth Information
49 "profile_image_url":
50 "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_imgs/378800010/
2d55a4388bcffd5.jpeg",
51 "profile_link_color": "0084B4",
52 "profile_sidebar_border_color": "FFFFFF",
53 "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
54 "profile_text_color": "333333",
55 "profile_use_background_image": true,
56 "protected": false,
57 "screen_name": "DJ_Ice",
58 "statuses_count": 186,
59 "time_zone": "Hawaii",
60 "url": null,
61 "utc_offset": -36000,
62 "verified": false
63 }
64 }
Fields
created_at
at line 2 and
text
at line 22 in the previous tweet provide the
information that interests ACME. The
created_at
entry stores the timestamp
that the tweet was published, and the
text
field stores the main content of the
Twitter post. Other fields could be useful, too. For example, utilizing fields such as
coordinates
(line 3 to 9), user's local language (
lang
, line 40), user's
location
(line 42),
time_zone
(line 59), and
utc_offset
(line 61) allows the analysis
to focus on tweets from a specific region. Therefore, the team can research what
people say about ACME's products at a more granular level.
Many news portals and blogs provide data feeds that are in an open standard
format, such as RSS or XML. As an example, an RSS feed for a phone review blog
is shown next.
01 <channel>
02 <title>All about Phones</title>
03 <description>My Phone Review Site</description>
04 <link>http://www.phones.com/link.htm</link>
05
06 <item>
07 <title>bPhone: The best!</title>
08 <description>I love LOVE my bPhone!</description>
