[Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed

paul jones pjones at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Apr 2 07:13:11 PDT 2009


Take a look at http://contextminer.org and for real time http://monitter.com

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:

> We are looking into the viability of capturing feeds with the Blog Analysis
> Toolkit...if there is an RSS feed, we should be able to capture it.
>
> https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Emma Duke-Williams <
> emma.dukewilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2009/4/2 Anstead Nicholas Mr (PSI) <N.Anstead at uea.ac.uk>:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone had any experience of taking a twitter feed
> > > and downloading the context of it, so as it could be turned into a text
> > > file for analysis?
> > >
> >
> > I'd also be interested in that ... I've used Wordle (which works with
> > the RSS feed) on Twitter feeds & had hoped to compare a Wordle with a
> > Treecloud ( http://www.treecloud.org/  & also
> >
> >
> http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2009/04/01/generate-your-own-tree-clouds/
> > )
> > However, I couldn't work out how to get the text that I needed!
> >
> > Emma
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> > School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of
> > Portsmouth, UK.
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