You can also take a look at one of my apps that pulls out a lot of this data for any (public) Twitter user.
http://tweetstats.com/graphs/dacort shows my activity since I joined Twitter and can be broken down by month. I'd be very interested in hearing your conclusions, feel free to let me know if there's a way I can help. Damon On Nov 16, 11:09 am, Ciarán <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > seehttp://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 -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
