My team at Drexel operates a twitter data collection system, Called Twitter Zombie, which is published at the 2012 ACM Group Conference ( http://www.groupinformatics.org/sites/default/files/TwitterZombieGroup.pdf ). If you have Twitter search phrases, accounts or hashtags you would like to collect without setting up infrastructure on your own, we can do that for you. We ask you to attribute your data collection to our system, but do not enforce this. The data is yours. Our current work is focusing on collaboration among social media researchers at the data collection stage, so you would also be helping us to identify these opportunities. Our work is being presented at upcoming conferences, including AOIR. Kris Unsworth and Ann-Sofie Axellson will be presenting one of our studies on "Social Media and Technologies of Control" at the upcoming AoIR conference. We also have a systematic set of analysis methodological approaches for Twitter and other social media data that we are planning to share at workshops at upcoming conferences. Thanks! Sean P. Goggins, PhD Assistant Professor Drexel University http://www.groupinformatics.org On 10/1/12 9:06 AM, "Maurice Vergeer" <m.vergeer@maw.ru.nl> wrote:

correct. There was Twapperkeeper which has become Hootsuite. This is YourTwapperkeeper, the open source version (see http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2011/06/21/switching-from-twapperkeeper-to -y ourtwapperkeeper/ )

best regards Maurice

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Siapera, Eugenia (Dr.) < es107@leicester.ac.uk> wrote:

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Great thread and very useful for some of us - however, I am slightly confused re Twapperkeeper - I was under the impression that it got sold to Hootsuite and is no longer available to download-use?

________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Maurice Vergeer [m.vergeer@maw.ru.nl] Sent: 30 September 2012 21:59 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Cc: eciszek@uoregon.edu; a.bruns@qut.edu.au Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional suggestions for Twitter aggregating & analytic tools

Axel Bruns beat me to it. Yes, I would advise YourTwapperkeeper for data collection as well. I've been using it for a while and am very pleased with it. Things are indeed very well described in the First Monday manuscript:

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArti cle/39 37/3193

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As for handling the data, I prefer to use SPSS. Yes, a statistical tool. But I use it primarily to handle the data. Also I use SPSS to match external data to the Twitter data. The data Twitter provides are of course somewhat limited. However if one taps into external data sets one is able to enrich Twitter data for more advanced analyses.

Also, SPSS has recently incorporated many text handling features to create new variables based on text strings. It thus also allows for creating your own metrics because - as Axel Bruns states - Twitter's metrices are biased. See my blogpost:

http://blog.mauricevergeer.nl/2011/04/18/bias-in-twitter-api-measurements /

As for Big Data analysis: without going for the Big Data, the number of observations already increases rapidly anyhow. See my presentation held at WAPOR Amsterdam:

http://www.slideshare.net/maver/candidates-communication-patterns-on-twit ter . SPSS can easily handle large amounts of data. As for large networks, I would recommend Pajek: http://mrvar.fdv.uni-lj.si/pajek/. They even released another version Pajek XXL for very very large networks.

Finally I know R the statstical / programming software also has a Twitter package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html). Have tried it once, but because I am noy (yet) an R-expert haven't used it since then. The advantage of using it in R would be that one cold stay within a single software environment. R also has text ( http://gking.harvard.edu/readme) and several network analytical packages.

HTH Maurice

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