[Air-L] twitter research

[Alexander Halavais]

Getting back to the question of collection. The tools listed by
Alejandro below are useful, but if you collection period is fairly
long, or if the tweeters are active, you'll have issues with it
falling out of the window saved by Twitter. (From what you've
described, this doesn't sound like it's an issue, but it may be for
others.)

I've used a little application called The Archivist:

http://www.flotzam.com/archivist/

There are significant limits here, and yes, it's not that hard to code
up something that will sit on a server and poll Twitter for your
accounts. But if you are looking for something quick that seems to
work, this is useful.

(There are some issues with high volume archiving; I talk a little
about those here: http://alex.halavais.net/g20-tweets )

Best,

Alex


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Nikki: this site has a lot of tools to track and backup tweets
> from Twitter:
>
> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-backup-your-twitter-archive/
>
> Cordially,
>
> Alejandro Tortolini
>
> 2010/2/4, Nikki Usher <nusher at usc.edu>:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am wondering whether someone can help me brainstorm how to do some twitter
>> research. I am following a set group of 20 or so people on a list, and I'd
>> like to collect their tweets each day and save them for future
>> research/qualitative analysis. What's the best way to do this? Some people
>> tweet regularly throughout the day, so it may not be as simple as a
>> screenshot. Is there a bot that someone has for this? I am just using the
>> main twitter site, so if someone has a different twitter ap to recommend
>> which would make this easier, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>> Nikki Usher
>>
>> --
>> Nikki Usher
>> PhD Candidate
>> Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
>> University of Southern California
>> mobile: 213-220-7824
>> www.nikkiusher.com
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