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 > > >>> >> -- > >>> >> 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 > > >>> > -- > >>> > 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 > > >>> -- > >>> Adam Green > >>> Twitter API Consultant and Trainer > >>>http://140dev.com > >>> @140dev > > >>> -- > >>> 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 > > >> -- > >> 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 > > > -- > > 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 -- 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
