[Air-L] Twitter Export App for Mac?

[Reynol Junco]

Theo,

Just now when I was searching around for a Mac client I came across a few
months ago, I found this site:  http://www.searchtastic.com/ which allows
you to export Twitter data directly to Excel. This could have saved me so
many headaches during our data collection a few months ago. The only
downside that I can see is that it doesn't export every column from the
Twitter API. But if you only need the Tweets and minimal user data, this
works perfectly.

Good luck,

Rey

-- 
Dr. Reynol Junco
Associate Professor
Department of Academic Development and Counseling
Director, Disability Services
Lock Haven University
http://blog.reyjunco.com





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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:58:07 -0500
From: "Theodore Plothe" <Z1593072 at students.niu.edu>
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Subject: [Air-L] Twitter Export App for Mac?
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Fellow Twitter researchers,
  My frustration with data collection has reached the point at which I am
sending a plea for help. I have been unable to locate a Twitter feed export
app for Mac OS. There are loads of great programs like BMS Twitter Export
for PCs, but if you're on a Mac, it seems nothing's out there.
  Seesmic allows me to read and search from multiple feeds and organize them
in certain ways, but I cannot export them as an Excel or Word file. Since I
need the time stamp from four months ago, (yeah, I'm behind in my data
collection) it's clunky and unusable.
  I'm collecting data from 250+ distinct feeds and I'm doing it as low tech
as possible: visiting each feed, scrolling through hundreds of tweets to get
the data I need, and then copying and pasting in a Word file. The data is
placed into a table for me to devour, code, and tabulate at my leisure.
  If anyone has any advice, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Theo Plothe
Graduate Student
Northern Illinois University
Until next time,
Theo