[Air-L] Twitter data collection tools

[Deen Freelon]

There are two basic ways to do this. You can use a programming module 
like Twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) or Twitter for Python 
(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter) to pull the data yourself, which 
is free but takes some time to learn how to do. The other option is to 
use an analytics platform like Discovertext or Crimson Hexagon, which is 
more user-friendly but more expensive.

~DEEN

On 11/10/2015 9:59 PM, Gohar F. Khan wrote:
> Hello list members:
>
> I am looking for tools which can help extract all possible Twitter
> statistics (such as, number of tweets, followers, followings, mentions,
> re-tweets, favorites) for a list of Twitter handlers (around 120 accounts). *In
> particular, I look for a tool that can take the IDs as a single file and
> provide the desired statistics for each ID. *
>
> The Webometrics Analyst has this functionality, but unfortunately it only
> provides followers and followings data. I am also familiar with the several
> other tools including the ones mentioned in the Dean Freelon's curated list
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UaERzROI986HqcwrBDLaqGG8X_lYwctj6ek6ryqDOiQ/edit>,
> but
> non of these can extract all the information I need. Some tools provide
> more statistics, but they work with one ID at time.
>
> I will greatly appreciate any suggestions.
>
>
> Thank you,
>

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