DOI: https://doi.org/10.15368/theses.2013.18
Available at: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/945
Date of Award
3-2013
Degree Name
MS in Computer Science
Department/Program
Computer Science
Advisor
Alex Dekhtyar
Abstract
Every week there are over a billion new posts to Twitter services and many of those messages contain feedback to companies about their services. One company that recognizes this unused source of information is Netflix. That is why Netflix initiated the development of a system that lets them respond to the millions of Twitter and Netflix users that are acting as sensors and reporting all types of user visible outages. This system enhances the feedback loop between Netflix and its customers by increasing the amount of customer feedback that Netflix receives and reducing the time it takes for Netflix to receive the reports and respond to them.
The goal of the SPOONS (Swift Perceptions of Online Negative Situations) system is to use Twitter posts to determine when Netflix users are reporting a problem with any of the Netflix services. This work covers the architecture of the SPOONS system and framework as well as outage detection using tweet classification.