I've had a look at some of the tools that have been suggested: 1: Monitter - I couldn't work out how to get a text file output (actually, I must be pretty dense, as I couldn't even work out how to get a single persons updates, never mind extract them!) 2: Blog analysis tool kit. Managed to get a feed fine, though it had the URLs for the different tweets in, so I guess that would cause problems with the treecloud. 3: Context miner; seems to be very complicated to set up - I can't quite work out what to do. That said, I could see that it could be useful for something more complex than just getting a text file with a feed from a single person on Twitter - which is what I'm after &, I think, what the original poster was after. Emma -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of Portsmouth, UK. Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker