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