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From: Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API

Figure 2

Manipulation experiments—volume. The grey areas represent Tweets in Twitter’s 1% Sample API from all 328 million users, excluding Tweets that were sent from our 100 automated accounts, which were designed to hit the sample time window with high probability. The thick lines are what researchers and analysts see when they study the respective hashtags through the lens of the Sample API. Data shows Tweets per 10 minutes in the 1% Sample API, so that 50 Tweets would be perceived as 5000 on all of Twitter. (A) #trump Sample API manipulation experiment. (B) #imwithher Tweets per 10 minutes in 1% Sample

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