[Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed

[Andrew Long]

Incidentally, I have tried the Blog Analysis toolkit (see blelow) and it
works fine. 
Grab the RSS feed from the right-hand side of the Twitter website and
set this as 
the blog URL.

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Stuart Shulman [mailto:stuart.shulman at gmail.com]
: Sent: Friday, 3 April 2009 3:10 a.m.
: To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
: Subject: Re: [Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed
: 
: 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
: > --
: > Emma Duke-Williams:
: > School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of
: > Portsmouth, UK.
: > Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-
: wie/blog/<http://userweb.port.ac.uk/%7Eduke-wie/blog/>
: > Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw
: > SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker
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