[Air-L] Twitter data collection tools

Maurice Vergeer m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl
Tue Nov 10 22:35:45 PST 2015


you could look at R's twitterR package. See
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf
But then you would need to know how to use R. Not that difficult but yet a
new program. One benefit: you have it directly ready for analysis
Hope that helps
Maurice

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Gohar F. Khan <gohar.feroz at gmail.com>
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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