A Favour: Anyone with a Datasift or Gnip substription

illdoit2morrow

Hi all,

Would anyone out there have a subscription to either Datasift or Gnip to get some historical Twitter Data for a college project?

My chosen topic doesn't have much Twitter activity, when using the Twitter API I am getting approx. 30-40 Tweets for the last 7 days. Ideally I'd just like to get all Tweets for as far back as possible for a single topic, but I can't afford the cost of a subscription for either service.

This would be a one off request, once I have data I can work with it.

Or if anyone might know of another way to get historical Twitter data, please let me know.

TIA

Buford T Justice

Have you looked at their developer API?
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search

illdoit2morrow

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Have you looked at their developer API?
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search

Yes, there is a cap on the amount of data that can be returned unfortunately, it is limited to 7 days history

Buford T Justice

Did you contact them and explain what you're looking for?

You'd be surprised at how helpful some places can be when it comes to students......

illdoit2morrow

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Did you contact them and explain what you're looking for?

You'd be surprised at how helpful some places can be when it comes to students......

Not Twitter directly, but I did try Datasift and Gnip. Both came back to me saying they didn't offer anything for academic purposes.

hooplah

Can you change your topic?

There are a lot of interesting collections where people have gathered tweets over time. I wonder if they might work?

Twarc is a tool for gathering tweets used by a good few academics, it might be worth a look.
https://github.com/DocNow/twarc

A twitter search for twarc throws up a few results.

Nick Ruest [@ruebot] is a librarian / programmer who has built up a huge collections of tweets - basically he's tracking anonymous Wikipedia edits that are made from Canadian Government IP addresses. They're tweeted here: https://twitter.com/gccaedits and archived here: https://github.com/ruebot/gccaedits_data