[twitter-dev] Re: historic trend data 10 days old

2010-11-22 Thread James Chivers
Thanks Taylor et al. for the responses. If there's a chance that I can
get a copy of this data (any format/type would be awesome) for a
project I'm working on, I'd love to hear from you ;)

Right now, I've daily trend data (20 top trends for each hour of the
day) from December 2008 to present day, but it is potted due to a bug
in a script that was sucking it down.

I'm more than happy to give any developer a copy of what I have if it
might help others, just drop me a line.

I can see that if Twitter are building analytics tools that maybe
releasing this data might cause some internal debate, but I'm happy to
discuss my project ideas with the Twitter folk if it'll help my
request of course.

Thanks again,

James


On Nov 22, 8:37 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-
research.net wrote:
 I've seen a few hints of the analytics product and know a fair number  
 of people who do that sort of thing for a living. I think they're  
 *not* obsessed with the past at all - their wet dream is very much  
 like what Wieden and Kennedy and a whole host of partners did this  
 summer in real time with Old Spice.

 That's the future of Twitter / social media / advertising: teams of  
 creative, legal, copy writers, production and analytics people huddled  
 around control panels, analytics dashboards, video studios, phone  
 banks, etc. It's a bit like mission control for a shuttle launch -  
 only if something goes wrong do people look at the past. And mobile /  
 iPad / places is going to make it even more real-time.
 --
 M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb

 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos

 Quoting Adam Green 140...@gmail.com:



  Yes, but advertisers and sales people are obsessed with the past, and
  they provide the dollars that will make Twitter grow. We'll see where
  this leads Twitter. I bet they follow the money. Google did, and it
  worked out OK. :)

  On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Taylor Singletary
  taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:
  I can't really speak much on the topic of the analytics tool. I can say 
  that
  you'll find most everything in Twitter is focused on real-time -- whether
  it's search results, the tweets available for a given user timeline, or the
  general structure and emphasis presented by our UI. There's not much on
  Twitter that allows one to dwell on the past.
  Taylor

  On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote:

  Taylor, there has been much talk lately about the new Twitter
  Analytics tool that would deliver historical data. Am I correct in
  assuming that this is built on an internal API, and that this API will
  be surfaced eventually for use by us developers?

  On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Taylor Singletary
  taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:
   Hi James,
   You'll find that, in most cases, the data available for a trend is
   limited
   by the amount of data provided by the Search API. While this goes back
   around 10 days currently, there have been times when less was available.
   Some day we hope to provide more historical data.
   Taylor

   On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:24 PM, James Chivers jchiv...@gmail.com
   wrote:

   I'm trying to dig out some hourly trend data from the Twitter API
   using the trends/daily call with the associated date that I'm looking
   for, but I'm not able to go back in time more than ~10 days.

   Is there any way that I'm able to grab the hourly trend data given a
   date  10 days from the API?

   Thanks in advance,

   James

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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: historic trend data 10 days old

2010-11-22 Thread Matt Harris
Hey James,

Also remember you can get the last 3-4 weeks of trend data (broken into
days) by making a request to:
http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/weekly.json?date=START_DATE

e.g. today you can go back as far as:
http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/weekly.json?date=2010-10-24

As with most of Twitter the limits on how far back we can go is
infrastructure based. We're working on our capacity all the time and if any
developments are made to the period over which trend data can be received
we'll let everyone know.

Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:52 PM, James Chivers jchiv...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks Taylor et al. for the responses. If there's a chance that I can
 get a copy of this data (any format/type would be awesome) for a
 project I'm working on, I'd love to hear from you ;)

 Right now, I've daily trend data (20 top trends for each hour of the
 day) from December 2008 to present day, but it is potted due to a bug
 in a script that was sucking it down.

 I'm more than happy to give any developer a copy of what I have if it
 might help others, just drop me a line.

 I can see that if Twitter are building analytics tools that maybe
 releasing this data might cause some internal debate, but I'm happy to
 discuss my project ideas with the Twitter folk if it'll help my
 request of course.

 Thanks again,

 James


 On Nov 22, 8:37 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-
 research.net wrote:
  I've seen a few hints of the analytics product and know a fair number
  of people who do that sort of thing for a living. I think they're
  *not* obsessed with the past at all - their wet dream is very much
  like what Wieden and Kennedy and a whole host of partners did this
  summer in real time with Old Spice.
 
  That's the future of Twitter / social media / advertising: teams of
  creative, legal, copy writers, production and analytics people huddled
  around control panels, analytics dashboards, video studios, phone
  banks, etc. It's a bit like mission control for a shuttle launch -
  only if something goes wrong do people look at the past. And mobile /
  iPad / places is going to make it even more real-time.
  --
  M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://
 twitter.com/znmeb
 
  A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul
 Erdos
 
  Quoting Adam Green 140...@gmail.com:
 
 
 
   Yes, but advertisers and sales people are obsessed with the past, and
   they provide the dollars that will make Twitter grow. We'll see where
   this leads Twitter. I bet they follow the money. Google did, and it
   worked out OK. :)
 
   On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Taylor Singletary
   taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:
   I can't really speak much on the topic of the analytics tool. I can
 say that
   you'll find most everything in Twitter is focused on real-time --
 whether
   it's search results, the tweets available for a given user timeline,
 or the
   general structure and emphasis presented by our UI. There's not much
 on
   Twitter that allows one to dwell on the past.
   Taylor
 
   On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   Taylor, there has been much talk lately about the new Twitter
   Analytics tool that would deliver historical data. Am I correct in
   assuming that this is built on an internal API, and that this API
 will
   be surfaced eventually for use by us developers?
 
   On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Taylor Singletary
   taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi James,
You'll find that, in most cases, the data available for a trend is
limited
by the amount of data provided by the Search API. While this goes
 back
around 10 days currently, there have been times when less was
 available.
Some day we hope to provide more historical data.
Taylor
 
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:24 PM, James Chivers jchiv...@gmail.com
 
wrote:
 
I'm trying to dig out some hourly trend data from the Twitter API
using the trends/daily call with the associated date that I'm
 looking
for, but I'm not able to go back in time more than ~10 days.
 
Is there any way that I'm able to grab the hourly trend data given
 a
date  10 days from the API?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
James
 
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