Assignment 4

How to confirm or deny that these tweets are Russian?

Data source, on delenn: /bigdata/data/russiantweets (plus notes.txt).

hour of day of tweets:
- btw, the time posted (created_at or created_str) is in GMT
- are russian tweets posted in times that people commonly tweet?
- worldwide-times.csv, from https://blog.bufferapp.com/best-time-to-tweet-research
- are the tweets posted during russian work hours?
- eddie, mimi, tierney
timezone of users:
- are user accounts distributed according to timezone the same as US pop?
  - just for those users who say they’re in US timezone
  - https://metricmaps.org/2017/05/22/2846/
- hayden, hans
days of the week that tweets occur, generally?
- vs. when people normally post on twitter
- brandon
time users were created
- pivotal points in election?
- compare actual creation times vs. uniform distribution
- emily, andrew, tram
followers vs. age of account
- probably buying followers if lots of followers for young accounts
- sam, duncan, dearvis