Kevin, We use a tool called TwapperKeeper (twapperkeeper.com) to archive tweets. Up until today you could only archive by hashtag, but the site announced yesterday that they were upgrading their site today and adding the ability to archive by user, @ replies and other Twitter tags. The trick that the archive begins when you set it up, so you have to know fairly early in the conversation that you want to build an archive. Kathie _________________ Dr. Kathie Gossett Asst. Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & New Media Co-Director CeME Lab Old Dominion University Sent from my iPhone On Mar 16, 2010, at 16:22, Kevin Guidry <krguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Liz <nwjerseyliz@yahoo.com> wrote:
1) There are some hashtag-related websites that collect Tweet "chats" that are organized around particular topics where a hashtag is used (such as "prchat", "educhat" "jounchal", etc.). You could examine the discussion that occurs over time from a particular set of user who are employed in a field or interested in it.
That's the approach I'm taking right now. I'm also fortunate enough that the participants that use the hashtag are very organized and publicly archive their discussions (they're moderated and scheduled in advance). And since it's all public I sailed through IRB without a problem. What the hastag?! (http://wthashtag.com/Main_Page) seems to be a popular choice for this kind of searching and monitoring of hashtags. But like Twitter their archives don't seem to go back more than a few days so you'll need to take that into consideration.
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