[Air-L] Q: Twitter text logs?

[Reynol Junco]

Doron,

I would recommend using the Twitter API directly. Here is the page in the
Twitter API Wiki that explains how to correctly call on the API for a search
: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search.

When you make such a call into the API, it will return an XML file that can
be imported into MS Excel (Windows only-- sorry, fellow Mac users). I wrote
a step-by-step blog post on how to do this using the "user timeline" method
when we were in the middle of our Twitter research project last semester:
http://reyjunco.tumblr.com/post/219287195/how-to-export-twitter-updates-to-excel

If you want to download a lot of tweets, make sure you pay particular
attention to the *rpp* (returns per page) and the *page* parameters.

I have a lot of experience with this as we downloaded and archived almost
3,500 tweets during our 15-week-long study. So, please let me know if you
have any questions.

Best,

Rey Junco


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


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From: "Friedman Doron" <doronf at idc.ac.il>
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Subject: [Air-L] Q: Twitter text logs?
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Hi,



Can anyone point us to authentic data from twitter that can be used for
research purposes? We are looking for sub-networks of followers, and a
set of texts generated by users that belong to the network.
Alternatively status messages from Facebook with the corresponding
friendship graphs can be useful as well. of course, the actual usernames
can be encrypted for privacy. Of course we will give full credit to
whoever has been able to harvest such data and make it available to the
research community.



Thanks!



- doron



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