[Air-L] ScraperWiki

Alex Leavitt alexleavitt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 08:17:16 PDT 2014


The tool you want is NodeXL. You may have to subsample the users though.

Sent from phone. - Alex Leavitt
On Jun 4, 2014 2:39 AM, "Raphael Velt" <psxrv at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello Roya,
>
> Accessing Twitter feeds is now much harder than it used to be when the
> Search API required no authentication.
> Anyway, there's a set of tools using the Streaming API that you may want
> to look at:
>
> The Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam has
> developed a tool called TCAT that you can download on your computer and
> install from their GitHub archive
> https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat/wiki
>
> Otherwise, it seems that the TwapperKeeper tools have now been integrated
> in HootSuite https://hootsuite.com/
>
> If you know the basics of Ruby programming, you can also use TweetStream
> https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream which is quite powerful
>
> Regards,
>
> Raphaël Velt
>
> PhD Student - Industrial Case "Understanding Media Trajectories"
> Mixed Reality Lab - University of Nottingham
> In partnership with BBC Research & Development, MediaCityUK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Roya M.
> Moussapour
> Sent: 03 June 2014 21:18
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] ScraperWiki
>
> Hi all -
>
> I'm doing a research project at Bowdoin College and trying to use
> ScraperWiki to gather tweets. ScraperWiki makes it very easy to gather
> tweets from all users on Twitter, but I'm looking to limit the data set to
> specific users. Is there a simple way to do this? If not - is there another
> program that will collect the data in a more streamlined way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roya Moussapour
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