Estimating trustworthiness for a twitter user using a heterogeneous network of twitter

• Clone the repo
• Create a new virtual environment using

  virtualenv -p python3 venv
  

• Activate the virtual environement via

  source venv/bin/activate
  

• Install twarc

  pip install twarc
  

• To scrape twitter data

  python src/crawl.py        
  

• Database name : twit_user_auth
• Only one collection type : twitusers
• Fields in twitusers :
  • user_id
  • user_handle
  • authenticity_score : Value between 0 to 1
  • manual_tag : Can be untagged / no (not credible) / yes (credible user) / unsure
  • verified : 1 for verified twitter users, otherwise 0