Participation and Data

Twitter has released a large public dataset of 160M public tweets, obtained by subsampling within ~2 weeks, that contains engagement features, user features, and tweet features.

Registration & Data Access

If you are experiencing any issues, please notify the organizers.

Participation for this challenge is subject to the acceptance of these Terms & Conditions

IMPORTANT

Due to the reported possible data leakage, we want to emphasize and enrich some of the existing rules in the competition in order to discourage and prevent participants from taking advantage of it.

Please notice that no actual data leakage happened: The Twitter data provided are all publicly available via the API and de-anonymization of the dataset was always possible and expected. The following measures are just intended to ensure a fair competition.

The Terms & Conditions already require that all submissions are accompanied by reproducible code, so that we can inspect winning solutions in detail: “Your Submission must include the source code and any related information used to derive the results contained in your Submission. The source code must be released under an open-source license (Apache 2.0). A third party should be able to use your submitted source to regenerate your results.” Furthermore, we explicitly state in our rules that NO de-anonymization or access to data from Twitter users and user behavior from the Twitter API other than that in the challenge dataset is allowed. Enriching the data with other data sources remains possible.

If any of the rules mentioned in the Terms & Conditions (and explained further above) are broken and thus discovered by the organizers in the code submission, the participant(s) that the submission belongs to will be disqualified from the competition. As mentioned in the Terms and Conditions: “Organizers and Sponsor reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any participant who makes a Submission that does not meet the Requirements or is in violation of these Terms.”