Q: Twitter text logs?
Hi, Can anyone point us to authentic data from twitter that can be used for research purposes? We are looking for sub-networks of followers, and a set of texts generated by users that belong to the network. Alternatively status messages from Facebook with the corresponding friendship graphs can be useful as well. of course, the actual usernames can be encrypted for privacy. Of course we will give full credit to whoever has been able to harvest such data and make it available to the research community. Thanks! - doron ==================== Dr. Doron Friedman Lecturer, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (Israel) & Honorary Lecturer, University College London Mobile: +972-54-4461807 Office: +972-9-9527654 http://www.idc.ac.il/communications/avl
I see two options you could use: 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. 2) Alternative, you could decide to use Friend Feed instead of Twitter. The advantage of FF is that it archives Tweets that are forwarded over there from Twitter & it is public. I can go back to 2008 in my archive of Tweets using the FF search feature. The possible disadvantage is that is a smaller group of users, mostly bloggers & early adopters, and doesn't reflect the current userbase of Twitter which is younger & more diverse ethnically & geographically. Liz Pullen nwjerseyliz@yahoo.com
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. Kevin
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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Hi, I am working on a similar project and succeeded in gathering up to 10000 tweets and other data for each user (the technology is quite ready). 10000 posts is the maximum number of posts that Tweeter keeps or each user. To complete this project, I need a reliable list of users by country or language. The idea is to create a DB of Hebrew / israeli users that do not represent companies or organizations. Yohanan Ouaknine dataneto@dataneto.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Friedman Doron" <doronf@idc.ac.il> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:02 PM Subject: [Air-L] Q: Twitter text logs?
Hi,
Can anyone point us to authentic data from twitter that can be used for research purposes? We are looking for sub-networks of followers, and a set of texts generated by users that belong to the network. Alternatively status messages from Facebook with the corresponding friendship graphs can be useful as well. of course, the actual usernames can be encrypted for privacy. Of course we will give full credit to whoever has been able to harvest such data and make it available to the research community.
Thanks!
- doron
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Dr. Doron Friedman
Lecturer, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (Israel) &
Honorary Lecturer, University College London
Mobile: +972-54-4461807
Office: +972-9-9527654
http://www.idc.ac.il/communications/avl
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