The value lies in the particular properties of a real social graph, as
opposed to an artificially generated one. The sort of questions it's useful
for are primarily social rather than mathematical. For a summary of some
existing research on similar data sets, see:
http://petewarden.typepad.com/sea
It's possible, if not likely, that releasing this data would be against one
or more Service Terms.
-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Pete Warden wrote:
> I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from
Quoting Pete Warden :
I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the
Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an
anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with
public profiles.
What I'm hoping to release is