Incidentally, I have tried the Blog Analysis toolkit (see blelow) and it works fine. Grab the RSS feed from the right-hand side of the Twitter website and set this as the blog URL. : -----Original Message----- : From: Stuart Shulman [mailto:stuart.shulman@gmail.com] : Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 3:10 a.m. : To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org : Subject: Re: [Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed : : We are looking into the viability of capturing feeds with the Blog Analysis : Toolkit...if there is an RSS feed, we should be able to capture it. : : https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php : : On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Emma Duke-Williams < : emma.dukewilliams@gmail.com> wrote: : : > 2009/4/2 Anstead Nicholas Mr (PSI) <N.Anstead@uea.ac.uk>: : > > Hi everyone, : > > : > > I was wondering if anyone had any experience of taking a twitter feed : > > and downloading the context of it, so as it could be turned into a text : > > file for analysis? : > > : > : > I'd also be interested in that ... I've used Wordle (which works with : > the RSS feed) on Twitter feeds & had hoped to compare a Wordle with a : > Treecloud ( http://www.treecloud.org/ & also : > : > http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2009/04/01/generate-your-own- : tree-clouds/ : > ) : > However, I couldn't work out how to get the text that I needed! : > : > Emma : > -- : > Emma Duke-Williams: : > School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of : > Portsmouth, UK. : > Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke- : wie/blog/<http://userweb.port.ac.uk/%7Eduke-wie/blog/> : > Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw : > SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker : > _______________________________________________ : > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list : > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org : > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: : > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org : > : > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: : > http://www.aoir.org/ : > : : : : -- : Dr. Stuart W. Shulman : Assistant Professor : Department of Political Science : University of Massachusetts Amherst : 200 Hicks Way : Amherst, MA 01003 : : http://people.umass.edu/stu/ : stu@polsci.umass.edu : 413-545-5375 : : Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics : http://www.jitp.net : : Director, QDAP-UMass : http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ : : Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government : http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/