Hi Stacy, #rbnews is very heavily used within Greece and the Greek diaspora, and even then mostly within left-wing and perhaps centre-left circles. It plays an important role in Greek news reporting (even outside radiobubble), but may not be 'popular' in the broader sense. They want the complete archives going back to the beginning of the hashtag's use, and had heard that there were commercial services which may be able to provide this. I thought perhaps some people here who are using these services for research could help. Eugenia, does the export function work just for your own account or could you do it for a hashtag also? Thanks, sky. On 30 April 2013 11:22, Stacy Blasiola <sblasi2@uic.edu> wrote:

Hi Sky,

Do you mean that they want the entire archive going back, going forward, or both? If it's going back, there's really not much you can do about that once you hit the limit on search (7 days or X tweets; I can't recall exactly).

Also, do you have any idea of how popular the hashtag is? I did a search.twitter.com on it, and it doesn't seem to be too heavily used. I could just be wrong on that account, though, or it could be a slow period. I donno.

If it's not too heavily used (less than 1500 per hour), and they want more complete archives going forward, I'd recommend they use Martin Hawksey's TAGS http://mashe.hawksey.info/2013/02/twitter-archive-tagsv5/, or setup the free Your Twapper Keeper if they're a bit more techy and have some server space https://github.com/540co/yourTwapperKeeper

No matter what they do, they like all of us, will be limited by the Twitter API.

Anyway, I have been reading your name all night because I'm using your paper on DLM in something i'm working on now, so I figured it was fateful that I respond.

Hope your research is going well. Safe travels.

Cheers, Stacy Stacy Blasiola IGERT Fellow - Electronic Security & Privacy JOBEM - Editorial Associate Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 W Harrison Street, Behavioral Sciences Building Chicago, IL 60607

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Sky Croeser <scroeser@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I'm in Athens doing some research and was interviewing some people from RadioBubble (http://international.radiobubble.gr/), a non-profit web radio station which is providing vital coverage of the crisis, the fascist movement, and the antifascist movement.

They've kept some archives of a hashtag they use for gathering news, #rbnews, but don't have the complete archives, and want them to use a basis for writing an overview of the crisis.

Does anyone know how they could do this for free? Like most people in Greece, radiobubble is hanging on by the skin of their teeth financially.

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