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

Jen Jack Gieseking jgieseking at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 05:34:02 PDT 2013


Thanks, Stuart.

And beyond GNIP / 30 days? Any other ideas? Thanks, all!
JJG



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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes. Gnip serves that data and you can experiment with collecting it via
> the DiscoverText 30-day free trial:
>
> https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial
>
> We provide 1000 gratis 'credits' where each item and the associated
> metadata count together as one spent credit. You can run a 1000-item pilot
> test of the Gnip Tumblr stream, or spread your credits across the fire hose
> for Twitter, Disqus & WordPress.
>
> This is sample metadata from a Tumblr item using a Power Track operator to
> exclude reblogs, but if you don't include the rule, you get all the reblogs
> and you can use the "Sifter" engine to deduplicate and cluster around
> reblogging inside of DiscoverText.
>
> actor id:   tag:gnip.tumblr.com:2012:blog/29604921
>   id:   tag:gnip.tumblr.com:2012
> :post/60837734713/update/9dc81eb1beb4540312e1b20d251b98b7ff0cdcf2d0442b176ca40c5739a49448
>   link:
> http://crash--test.tumblr.com/post/60837734713/ferrari-430-scuderia-by-lyon1845
>   note count:   40
>   object type:   photo-album
>   posted time:   9/10/2013 2:41:22 PM
>   rule match:   -is:reblog flickr
>   tag:   430
>   tag:   cars
>   tag:   F430
>   tag:   Ferrari
>   tag:   Scuderia
>   target display name:   crash--test
>   target link:   http://crash--test.tumblr.com/
>   target object type:   blog
>   tumblrreblogkey:   4VCo4kLi
>   tumblrtype:   photo
>   url:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/60710285@N05/9691950494/in/photostream/
> Show top meta  verb:       update
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Jen Jack Gieseking <jgieseking at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> To add to this convo, has anyone been able to grab the notes per post
>> (reblogs, comments, likes) associated with a specific hashtag on Tumblr?
>> I'm guessing not given the previous answer but one never knows.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jen Jack Gieseking, Ph.D.
>> New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow
>> Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College
>> jgieseking at gmail.com
>> www.jgieseking.org
>> www.spatiallyinclined.org
>> @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 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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