Before going too far down this path, you might want to take a look at
a. The research of Dan Zarrella (@danzarrella) at HubSpot. He's done
some extensive research in this area and most of it is publicly
available for free (well, you *do* have to get into their email
contact database)
b. The various Twitter "ranking" services, like Twitalyzer and Klout.
They have lists and searchable databases of "high ranking" Twitter
users that collect most of these statistics automatically, and have
APIs you can subscribe to.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
Quoting Ciarán <ciaran.mac.mathgham...@gmail.com>:
Hi
I hope I'm not posting this in the wrong area, as I haven't posted
here before and am not a developer. I am a lecturer and researcher at
Dublin Business School and I've tried to find what I'm looking for
elsewhere, but so far haven't found what I need. I reckon this is
fairly straightforward, but I'm not a coder, so I don't know. If you
think you can do this, please email me with a quote
I need help with a project I'm trying to get off the ground - I'm a
research psychologist with a special interest in social networking.
Basically, I want to look at the personality profile of Twitter users.
This has been done before with Facebook, but with self-reporting of
usage data.
I want an app which will, with the user's permission, produce their
overall statistics:- e.g.
number of followers, following, listed, tweets, date joined, number of
@replies, #hashtags, retweets, and links.
This will form part of an online survey which will also include
personality and other psychological measures (for more information see
http://www.ciaranmcmahon.ie/psychbook/social-network-profiling-project/).
The basic idea is to see if there is a relationship between
personality traits and actual Twitter usage.
For example, I'm interested in things like the personality differences
between the average Facebook and Twitter user, what types of people do
or don't retweet or provide links - that type of thing
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Ciarán
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