Dear Colleagues, On September 26 we have parliamentary elections in Venezuela and Twitter has become one of the arenas of political struggle so we want to capture the most of the posts’ statistics from Venezuela. Comscore published that Venezuela is one of the leaders in Twitter usage but statistics about the country’s usage are not available as we would like. http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/8/Indonesia_Brazil_... We are using and comparing the information gathered with these tools, what else do you recommend? Searchtastic.com - search Twitter history and export tweets to Excel<http://www.searchtastic.com/index.php> http://www.searchtastic.com/index.php Advanced Twitter Search <http://search.twitter.com/advanced> http://search.twitter.com/advanced TwitterLocal <http://www.twitterlocal.net/> http://www.twitterlocal.net Top Twitter User Rankings & Stats | Twitaholic.com <http://twitaholic.com/> http://twitaholic.com Twitter Alerts - TweetBeep.com <http://tweetbeep.com/> http://tweetbeep.com Hashtags.org <http://hashtags.org/> http://hashtags.org ContextMiner <http://www.contextminer.org/> http://www.contextminer.org Twapper Keeper - "We save tweets" - Archive Tweets<http://twapperkeeper.com/index.php> http://twapperkeeper.com/index.php What The Trend. Find out WHY terms are trending on Twitter<http://www.whatthetrend.com/> http://www.whatthetrend.com Twitoaster - the Twitter conversations service <http://twitoaster.com/> http://twitoaster.com The Archivist Desktop By Mix Online<http://visitmix.com/labs/archivist-desktop> http://visitmix.com/labs/archivist-desktop Twitter follow stats, graphs and widgets | Twitter Counter<http://twittercounter.com/> http://twittercounter.com Thanks! María Isabel Neüman Universidad del Zulia Centro de Investigación de la Comunicación y la Información Investigadora responsable del programa “Experiencias Locales de Apropiación Tecnológica” Maracaibo, Venezuela