TwitterMonitor: Trend Detection over the Twitter Stream

Summary: Real-time trend detection over a high-velocity Twitter stream identifies emerging topics and provides analytics that synthesize concise descriptions. Unique aspects include interactive trend ranking and user-submitted topic descriptions, with a streaming-analytics architecture demonstrated in a live scenario. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4399
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 0.00010778916
Overall Rank: 1,439 | 90.13%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807306

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Authors

1. Michael Mathioudakis (University of Toronto)
2. Nick Koudas (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mathioudakis_sigmod10,
        title = {{TwitterMonitor: Trend Detection over the Twitter Stream}},
        author = {Mathioudakis, Michael and Koudas, Nick},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807306},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807306},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,018	Dense Subgraph Maintenance under Streaming Edge Weight Updates for Real-time Story Identification	2012	VLDB	0.0001263063
7,277	Real Time Discovery of Dense Clusters in Highly Dynamic Graphs: Identifying Real World Events in Highly Dynamic Environments	2012	VLDB	5.6581746e-05
7,751	GeoScope: Online Detection of Geo-Correlated Information Trends in Social Networks	2014	VLDB	5.552233e-05
8,117	Realtime Analysis of Information Diffusion in Social Media	2013	VLDB	5.4837975e-05
9,085	Towards Social Data Platform: Automatic Topic-focused Monitor for Twitter Stream	2013	VLDB	5.3251649e-05
9,501	Tracking Set Correlations at Large Scale	2014	SIGMOD	5.2592462e-05
12,035	Topic Exploration in Spatio-Temporal Document Collections	2016	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,149	Tracking the Conductance of Rapidly Evolving Topic-Subgraphs	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,175	Aggregate Estimation Over a Microblog Platform	2014	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,318	Surfacing Time-critical Insights from Social Media	2012	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,378	EnBlogue – Emergent Topic Detection in Web 2.0 Streams	2011	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,703	BlogScope: A System for Online Analysis of High Volume Text Streams	2007	VLDB	8.2340288e-05
8,758	What's on the Grapevine ?	2009	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05

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