[Air-L] Any tool to analyse tweets in a trend (Muhammad Babur)

Mon Jan 28 07:22:06 PST 2013

Hello all,

Apologies if I am about to jump in with a question discussed previously (if so, I am happy to look through the archives) but I have been spending a lot of time trying get a sense of how one can access 'historical' Twitter data. A collaborator and I have a fairly small-scale project, for which we'd like to look back about 2 years at maybe 1-3 specific hashtags all related to a local neighbourhood campaign. From what I have garnered from a lot of looking around, the only way to get at historical data is by purchasing services from third parties with access to the Twitter fire hose. The problem there is that such companies only seem to offer much more extensive services than we need - we do not need, for instance, full-scale quantitative analytics of tweet data, mood, and the like. We simply want to generate a list of tweets using a certain hashtag over a certain period, for the purposes of qualitative analysis (it would be linked with interviews and other secondary information).

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

Very best,
Scott Rodgers
www.publiclysited.com

> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:53:02 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Any tool to analyse tweets in a trend (Muhammad Babur)
> 
> If you'd like to set up your own twitter monitor, i.e. collect tweets
> either from location or based on keywords and store them in a database, I
> created a tool and wrote a guide on how to do it for free here:
> http://mapvocate.net/?p=12
> It should take all of five minutes to set up.
> 
> The software is open-source, if you can wait a week or two we'll be
> releasing a version for linux/mac os x as well as a guide on how to set it
> up on a server (this depends on work schedule).
> 
> /jt
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Gilad Lotan <giladlotan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you're also looking to gather the tweets, might be worthwhile to try
> > Datasift Historics. I think they only support events from the past month,
> > but potentially worthwhile to check them out -
> > http://datasift.com/historics
> >
> > Otherwise once you have the data, if its not too large of a dataset, you
> > can easily use mysql, mongo db or even excel for the analysis.
> >
> > Gilad
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Muhammad Babur <baburanwer at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Yes .  I have just checked that .
> > >
> > > On 24 January 2013 20:15, Jason D Ensor <jasondensor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Unfortunately, 140kit.com are closing so no good for Twitter mining.
> > > > Creating a new dataset on their website yields: "Sorry, but 140kit is
> > in
> > > > the process of shutting down as of Feb. 1 and, as such, is not
> > accepting
> > > > any new datasets".
> > > > Jas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 24 January 2013 22:24, Alexander Furnas <zfurnas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > You want to use 140kit.com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > > >
> > > > > On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Axel Bruns <a.bruns at qut.edu.au> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > G'day !
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Muhammad Babur asked:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Can you please identify some tool that can be used to analyse
> > tweets
> > > > in
> > > > > a
> > > > > >> particular trends ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We had a similar question about this here last September. Here's my
> > > > > answer at the time, which outlines a number of tools and solutions
> > > we've
> > > > > found useful in our work at the CCI:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2012/09/29/a-quick-recap-of-twitter-research-approaches/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hope this helps.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
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