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

Shulman, Stuart stu at texifter.com
Mon Jan 28 08:12:34 PST 2013 

Scott,

Gnip and Datasift are the two best options for historical Twitter data. We
are customers of Gnip and value the service.

~Stu


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Scott Rodgers
<rodgers_scott at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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
> > From: jetlistserv at gmail.com
> > To: giladlotan at gmail.com
> > CC: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
> > 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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> > > > http://produsage.org/
> > > > > > > ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation
> > > > http://cci.edu.au/
> > > > > > > Associate Professor, Media & Communication
> > > > a.bruns at qut.edu.au
> > > > > > > Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP     Twitter:
> > > @snurb_dot_info
> > > > > > > Queensland University of Technology                    +61 7
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> > > > Kind Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Muhammad Babur
> > > >
> > > > Founder and Executive Board Member (ELLTA : www.ellta.org)
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