[Air-L] Update on simple historical Twitter hashtag searches

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

Hi,
amazing, I just checked and indeed I get results that go years back!
Best --u

At 13:18 Uhr -0500 8.3.2013, Deen Freelon wrote:
>Hmm, just tested the search API with an old hashtag and it looks 
>like it's still only trawling up to a week back in time. Maybe 
>Twitter hasn't rolled out historical access to the API yet, or maybe 
>I'm just #doinitwrong. ~DEEN
>
>On 3/8/2013 11:20 AM, Scott Rodgers wrote:
>>
>>
>>Dear Air-L,
>>
>>
>>
>>I thought I should follow up with a small but perhaps not so insignificant
>>update on my query to the list from January (see below) where I outlined my
>>difficulties in accessing 'historical'
>>Twitter data, specifically a simple search of all tweets using a specific
>>hashtag over around a two year period.
>>
>>
>>Without getting too
>>prematurely excited, it does seem that Twitter has listened to 
>>complaints that
>>this rather basic search functionality should be provided to 
>>general users, not
>>just big data analysis companies. Today when I searched for a 
>>specific hashtag
>>in the 'discover' tab, I noticed that a user can indeed now go back 
>>(apparently)
>>indefinitely and read all tweets using a particular hashtag.
>>
>>
>>
>>Very best,
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>  			  
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