[Air-L] Social media data collection

[Shulman, Stu]

https://gwu-libraries.github.io/sfm-ui/posts/2017-09-14-twitter-data

This is the #1 Google search result for "Twitter Data Research" on my
browser. It is from the GWU library system Twitter experts.

They do a nice job laying out the options and are currently updating this
top-ranked post.

Twitter: @SocialFeedMgr

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 7:28 AM, Nicola Langdon <
nicola.langdon at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a post-doc researcher based at the University of Plymouth. I am
> investigating the media framing of renewable energy and would like to
> capture the conversations occurring about this through social media,
> particularly Twitter.
>
> My previous experience with this has been limited to qualitative analysis
> via a manual retrieval of tweets via Twitter's advanced search (obviously
> small in number compared to large-scale mining) and coding this in NVivo.
>
> I have heard of many third-party sites that previously collected tweets in
> bulk via Twitter's API, (I think!) (for example Twapperkeeper and I have
> previously used the free element of Topsy) but many of these seem to no
> longer be in existence which has led me to query whether this is compliant
> with Twitter's user policies.
>
> I know there have been many conversations around this before but can
> anybody clarify whether it is possible to collect Tweets in bulk related to
> specific key words or hashtags? And if so, is there a specific programme
> that can assist me with this? For example, can I set something up to
> capture the tweets occurring using specific key words/hashtags over a few
> months? And is this permissible with Twitter's Ts & Cs?
>
> I am currently exploring the possibility of using Keyhole - has anybody
> used this before?
>
> I know there have been numerous similar enquiries so please forgive me for
> asking again. I do not know very much about computer programming and have
> never used R or Python so I would appreciate if somebody can explain this
> to me without too much technical terminology if possible!
>
> With thanks,
> Nicola
>
> Dr Nicola Langdon
> Researcher -Media Framing of Deep Geothermal Energy
> Sustainable Earth Institute
> Room 101, 1 Kirkby Place,
> Plymouth,
> PL4 8AA
>
> Tel: +44 (0)1752 585617
> Twitter: @nicolaklangdon
>
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