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

[Jean Burgess]

I would bet it's the former - precisely to improve the search experience for (web) users while keeping the choke on API-enabled data access and storage?

By the way:

I note that search in the official iOS app doesn't have the "all" search results function, which is very far from ideal in many circumstances. For example, in a crisis situation there are times when I might want to view all tweets for a search (a location name for example) not just all the popular or socially "relevant" tweets. 

On 08/03/2013, at 10:19, "Deen Freelon" <dfreelon at gmail.com> 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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> 
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