Analysis of tweets in Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging service that commands more than 288 million monthly active users (in 2015) and is growing fast. Twitter users post short messages called tweet about any topic and follow others to receive their tweets. The great amount of data coming from Twitter users is a meaning source of information regarding different aspects of people life. The goal of this paper is to mine such information through the study of the tweets posted in the time interval of one year. The analysis performed on these data allows us to draw meaningful conclusions about the behavior and preference of Twitter users.

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