Hello list members: Thank you to those who provided great suggestions and insights. Here is a summery of the responses. Most of the tools/applications lists below are supposed to be capable of bulk Twitter data collection. Though I haven't tested all, I found some very useful including DiscoverText, NodeXL, Twitonomy, and Nexalogy. 1.* Twitter Data extraction applications (does not require programming skills)* - DiscoverText: http://www.screencast.com/t/VKLqaekPz - Demographics Pro: http://www.demographicspro.com/ - NodeXL: https://nodexl.codeplex.com/ - Twitonomy: http://www.twitonomy.com/ - RapidMiner: http://docs.rapidminer.com/studio/how-to/cloud-connectivity/twitter.html - KPI6: https://www.kpi6.com/ - Talend: http://www.datalytyx.com/twitter-sentiment-analysis-using-talend/ - KNIME: https://www.knime.org/blog/knime-twitter-nodes - Pentaho: http://www.patlaf.com/query-twitter-api-with-pentaho-pdi-kettle/ - iScience Maps: http://maps.iscience.deusto.es/ - Nexalogy: https://nexalogy.com/ 2. *Tools/Scripts/Modules (require programming skills)* - Twarc: https://github.com/edsu/twarc - Twitter for Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter - getUserTimeline.py script by Prof. Libby: https://github.com/casmlab/user-timeline-tools - R's twitterR package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf - Erik Michaels-Ober's Ruby gem 't': https://github.com/sferik/t 3. *Help Resources* - Twitter API documentation - tweets: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets; - users: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/users; - hashtags: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/entities-in-twitter-objects. - Getting Twitter Data with R: http://www.r-bloggers.com/getting-started-with-twitter-in-r/ - Example study on iScience Maps: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/papers/2011ReipsGaraizar_fina... For the sake of folks not on this list, I also made it available here <http://centreforsocialtech.com/analytical-tools/twitter-analytical-tools/>. Thank you once again. Regards, GFK --------------------- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Adjunct Faculty & Research Adviser Korea Advance Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) Global Information and Telecommunication Technology Program (ITTP) 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Check out my new book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201 <http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||