[Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed

Emma Duke-Williams emma.dukewilliams at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 07:06:11 PDT 2009


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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