[Air-L] Tweet Secondary Media Uptake

[Astvansh, Vivek]

Thank you for asking, Liam. Let me paraphrase my understanding of what you want. Given a topic (hashtag, or just a word or phrase), you'd first collect all the tweets on that topic in a given date range. For each of the tweet in your sample, you next want to obtain data on news media articles that refer to the focal tweet. Did I understand you correctly AND completely? If no, please help.

If yes: you can obtain Twitter data from vendors such as Crimson Hexagon or GNIP. Next, you can write a program that searches Factiva or LexisNexis Academic for each tweet by text, username, etc.
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Hi everyone,

My name is Liam Monninger. I'm an undergraduate researcher at UCLA, working
on a project that seeks to understand tweets as commitment devices in
international politics.

To better understand the audience of a given tweet, I would like to be able
to see and tabulate the secondary media where said tweet is embedded. I was
thinking, in the very least, I could just make a list of major publications
worldwide and manually check articles to see if a certain tweet is
embedded. But, it would be nice to have a more sophisticated method.

Any ideas? Is there perhaps a useful API?

Thanks,
Liam Monninger
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