[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

2009-10-14 Thread JOHN OBRIEN
Many people in academia / research have used TwapperKeeper service to capture tweets of interest (that are tagged) and export for analysis. Let me know if you have any questions. v/r, John http://TwapperKeeper.com jobr...@ob3solutions.com @jobrieniii On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Atul

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

2009-10-14 Thread Atul Kulkarni
Thanks, John. I am not only looking at hash tags, but also other things that go along with tweets. I will keep in mind. I was actually curious about Twitter's policy on this. What is there take on releasing a certain dataset of say some random X number of users. Is it violation of any of their

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

2009-10-14 Thread Kyle B
Atul, I am in the same boat as you. I am currently using the APIs that Twitter offers to gather data. However, the more data I have access to, the fewer assumptions I have to make and the better my results. Twitter is very popular though and access to their data from 3rd parties consumes a lot

[twitter-dev] Re: Tweets Dataset for academia?

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Woolway
Hi Atul, There is a fairly significant corpus of tweets available, although it is fairly old - see here: http://www.mail-archive.com/twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com/msg05715.html. I believe that the second part has expired, but you should be unable to use the first part - it is several