You could try http://tweetbackup.com to grab all tweets for a given user and then export these as text, HTML or XML. : -----Original Message----- : From: Anstead Nicholas Mr (PSI) [mailto:N.Anstead@uea.ac.uk] : Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2009 11:17 p.m. : To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org : Subject: [Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed : : 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? : : Using either an individual's twitter page or twitter search you can : generate an RSS feed (for example: : http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23barackobama is the feed for : #BarackObama). But I can't find a way to download it in a usable form. : : I did try Stu Shulman's excellent blog capture tool : (https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php) but it didn't : seem to be able to see the feeds. : : Does anyone have any suggestions? : : Many thanks, Nick : : : -- : Nick Anstead : : Lecturer in Politics, : School of Political, Social and International Studies, : University of East Anglia : : [r] Arts 3.59 : [e] n.anstead@uea.ac.uk : [p] 01603 59 2888 : [m] 07788 413 443 : [b] www.nickanstead.com/blog