Hello: I am wondering whether someone can help me brainstorm how to do some twitter research. I am following a set group of 20 or so people on a list, and I'd like to collect their tweets each day and save them for future research/qualitative analysis. What's the best way to do this? Some people tweet regularly throughout the day, so it may not be as simple as a screenshot. Is there a bot that someone has for this? I am just using the main twitter site, so if someone has a different twitter ap to recommend which would make this easier, I'd appreciate it. Many thanks. Nikki Usher -- Nikki Usher PhD Candidate Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California mobile: 213-220-7824 www.nikkiusher.com
Dear Nikki: this site has a lot of tools to track and backup tweets from Twitter: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-backup-your-twitter-archive/ Cordially, Alejandro Tortolini 2010/2/4, Nikki Usher <nusher@usc.edu>:
Hello:
I am wondering whether someone can help me brainstorm how to do some twitter research. I am following a set group of 20 or so people on a list, and I'd like to collect their tweets each day and save them for future research/qualitative analysis. What's the best way to do this? Some people tweet regularly throughout the day, so it may not be as simple as a screenshot. Is there a bot that someone has for this? I am just using the main twitter site, so if someone has a different twitter ap to recommend which would make this easier, I'd appreciate it.
Many thanks. Nikki Usher
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Getting back to the question of collection. The tools listed by Alejandro below are useful, but if you collection period is fairly long, or if the tweeters are active, you'll have issues with it falling out of the window saved by Twitter. (From what you've described, this doesn't sound like it's an issue, but it may be for others.) I've used a little application called The Archivist: http://www.flotzam.com/archivist/ There are significant limits here, and yes, it's not that hard to code up something that will sit on a server and poll Twitter for your accounts. But if you are looking for something quick that seems to work, this is useful. (There are some issues with high volume archiving; I talk a little about those here: http://alex.halavais.net/g20-tweets ) Best, Alex On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Nikki: this site has a lot of tools to track and backup tweets from Twitter:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-backup-your-twitter-archive/
Cordially,
Alejandro Tortolini
2010/2/4, Nikki Usher <nusher@usc.edu>:
Hello:
I am wondering whether someone can help me brainstorm how to do some twitter research. I am following a set group of 20 or so people on a list, and I'd like to collect their tweets each day and save them for future research/qualitative analysis. What's the best way to do this? Some people tweet regularly throughout the day, so it may not be as simple as a screenshot. Is there a bot that someone has for this? I am just using the main twitter site, so if someone has a different twitter ap to recommend which would make this easier, I'd appreciate it.
Many thanks. Nikki Usher
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According to some developers I know, the Twitter API is simple to work with so if you have any programmers you know, they might be able to write a program that would harvest this data. I do have a question for you though: Did you get consent from these 20 people to analyze their Tweets at a future date? Liz Pullen nwjerseyliz@yahoo.com
Hi - NodeXL (http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL) has a plug-in for extracting network data from Twitter. Rob ------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ackland Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute The Australian National University homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php project: http://voson.anu.edu.au Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php ------------------------------------- Nikki Usher wrote:
Hello:
I am wondering whether someone can help me brainstorm how to do some twitter research. I am following a set group of 20 or so people on a list, and I'd like to collect their tweets each day and save them for future research/qualitative analysis. What's the best way to do this? Some people tweet regularly throughout the day, so it may not be as simple as a screenshot. Is there a bot that someone has for this? I am just using the main twitter site, so if someone has a different twitter ap to recommend which would make this easier, I'd appreciate it.
Many thanks. Nikki Usher
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