[Air-L] Monitoring tags on Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest etc

[Alex Leavitt]

There is currently no way to track ALL tags on Tumblr unless you want to
shell out money for full access to GNIP (and even then you have to specify
terms and get the data moving from the current data forward; you have to
pay extra for historical data). Via the API, you can get posts per tag, and
if you have some programming experience, you could set up a cron job to
continually run through the API to collect data over a long period of time.

I'm not familiar with Pinterest or Instagram's APIs (I assume they operate
similarly), but you might check out
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sbakhshi/gilbert.chi13.pinterest.pdf to see how
they collected data.

As far as cross-network, there is no service (to my knowledge) that allows
you to do this.

Alexander Leavitt
PhD Student
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
http://alexleavitt.com
Twitter: @alexleavitt



On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Shulman, Stuart <stu at texifter.com> wrote:

> Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook are part of the DiscoverText capability:
> http://www.discovertext.com/import.html
>
> We support Gnip's "Power Track" operators for four streams of data:
> http://www.discovertext.com/Gnip.html
>
> There is a 30-day free trial with access to Facebook, Twitter, WordPress,
> Tumblr, and Disqus:
> https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial
>
> This is an example of how a sophisticated research group uses DT & Gnip:
> http://vimeo.com/55175059
>
> Stu
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Deller, Ruth A <R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Does anyone know of an easy way of keeping track of tags over time in
> > Tumblr, Pinterest or Instagram. I'm especially interested in numbers of
> > tags over time and particular spikes in their popularity, and, if
> possible,
> > how manh unique users are associated with them and other tags often used
> in
> > conjunction.
> >
> > Also, is there any way you know of of being able to see how often things
> > have been crossposted across different social media platforms (ibc
> flickr,
> > twitter, facebook etc)?
> >
> > Ruth
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