SerpentTI
Alex Cheng, Mary Malit, Chuanxi Zhang, Nick Koudas · 2014
Pinterest is a pinboard style photo sharing web service that allows its users to manage, share and express their interests via a collection of theme based photos. A few design choices of Pinterest makes it highly desirable to social media practitioners and marketers as a new, high quality data source for deep analysis, or as a complimentary data stream to existing social data such as Twitter and Facebook. The analysis capabilities at the current Pinterest site are minimal however as the focus is currently on user experience. We provide a description of SerpentTI, a system that currently crawls, indexes and aggregates more than 31 million users, 96 million boards and 3.1 billion pins from Pinterest to enable flexible and deep analytics.