[Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for organizations?

[Shulman, Stu]

I would add that Maurice points to the non-trivial task of disambiguation
when an organization name overlaps terms in common usage. For example,
United Airlines is an organization, but it is most commonly referred to as
United. Manchester United is a very popular football organization, most
often referred to as United. The list of other widespread uses of this
common organization name sums up the disambiguation problem. It can be done
with training and machine-learning, but not for 2000 terms unless you have
an army of workers and lots of money. That suggests a second point,
essentially that the practical steps required to gather data for 2000
organizations over time and remain compliant with rate and query limits
would be daunting. You might consider trying the task with 5
organizations to assess the challenge of performing the task at scale.
Finally, from the view of qualitative research, depending on your end
goals, you may not need such a huge number of organizations to reach
saturation during analysis. That is, say you looked at 50 organizations and
then noticed on 51-60 that you were not learning much you had not already
learned. That is saturation.

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 6:08 AM Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice) <
m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl> wrote:

> Hi Ronald,
>
> yes it can be done, using R and the package rtweet. As for the YouTube
> question in the other, a similar approach could be done with R and the
> package Tuber. It probably needs a "do for" loop. Not sure rtweet (beware,
> technical lingo ahead)  is vectorized for this problem.
> A loop will take some time though, given the large number of
> organizations. Furthermore, because one query will return multiple results,
> some semi-manual evaluation needs to take place to asses which account is
> the actual account.
> But, anyone with some experience with R could do it.
> Hope that herlps.
>
> best regards
> Maurice
>
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> Onderwerp: [Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for
> organizations?
>
> Hi folks.  This is an incredibly simple question, and I told my colleagues
> that I was sure someone (probably many) on AoIR knows the answer to this.
> I have a study with 2000 organizations (and their official names) and wish
> to find out their main twitter account.  Twitter has a public directory,
> but it's browse only.  I'm sure a quick script could take the table of org
> names, apply it to some aspect of a twitter API or twitter database and
> return a list. But I'm not trained in that really cool and powerful set of
> approaches.  However, I'm also sure there is in fact already existing a
> twitter directory where you could enter the organization name and get the
> account. The paleolithic approach is to search each of the 2000 websites
> (which we have) to see if there's a twitter account posted; or worse, type
> the org name and "twitter" in Google search. Anyone have a suggestion?
> Thanks, so much, in advance.
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