Twimpact

Micro-blogging services like twitter have become very popular in recent years. As of now, exploring such services and finding interesting users is still an open problem.

With our project twimpact we explore methods for automatically measuring user impact, or studying the network structure of micro-blogging services.

Currently, we are crawling twitter for so-called "Retweets", and compute user impact from that. In addition, we perform real-time retweet trending.