[Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed

[Anstead Nicholas Mr (PSI)]

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?

Using either an individual's twitter page or twitter search you can
generate an RSS feed (for example:
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23barackobama is the feed for
#BarackObama). But I can't find a way to download it in a usable form. 

I did try Stu Shulman's excellent blog capture tool
(https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php) but it didn't
seem to be able to see the feeds. 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks, Nick 


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Nick Anstead

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University of East Anglia

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