is there any service from where we can download tweets?
UPDATE!!!
Googling for sometime gave me this result
a.) http://snap.stanford.edu/data/twitter7.html
b.) http://140kit.com/datasets
Yes, there is. It's called the Twitter API.
As we have access to limited tweets by Twitter-API, we should make use of third-party resellers like Topsy for just the past data, GNIP just for streaming data, or DataSift for both streaming data as well as past data.
You might also want to check the following sites:
http://www.infochimps.com/collections/twitter-census
http://www.tweetarchivist.com/
Twitter API allows provides partial results, it gives you the last 100 or even 500 tweets fo every search. If you need to keep tweets long term, twitter API shows its limits.
I had same need as you apparently hae and I developed a tool that queries twitter API periodically and stores search results on a Wordpress database.
I called the tools twittcorder and you can find a live demo on twittcorder.com
I hope this helps.
These other data sources are probably shared against the Twitter TOS. I wouldn't want to invest my time and effort building something on datasets that are non-repeatable. The Twitter Streaming API allows collection of a sample of Tweets.
There's also Gnip: http://gnip.com/.
Sysomos is there for complete data analysis including twitter, faecbook and various boards and forums
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I've got a bunch of free online HTML, CSS, and JS tutorials under my belt and I want to try using them to make a browser extension. But I want to make sure that the data I want to use is actually accessible before getting started.
My goal is to make a browser extension for twitter.com that shows the number of impressions of any tweet next to the likes, retweets, and replies. My basic idea is to get the status URL of any given tweet, poll the Twitter API for the number of impressions of that tweet, store that in a variable, and then use CSS to display a little eye icon and the number stored in the impressions variable.
I know that I can find the number of impressions of all of my tweets, both through Twitter Analytics, and also just going to my profile page and clicking the little bar chart icon next to views, retweets, etc. But I'm not clear on whether I can do that for other people's tweets via Twitter's API or anything else. Can you?
For the record, I'm not too concerned about the varying definition of "impression," since it will be consistently applied across all tweets and I'm mostly interested in giving users a comparison between tweets. This is part of a research project to see how this might change how people engage with social media if they know how many views a given post has. If there's a simpler way to go about that using existing platforms, I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks for the advice!
No, impressions data is private. If you are authenticated to the Twitter API then you can use the new Twitter Developer Labs Tweets API to get private metrics like impressions, but you cannot get that for other people's Tweets. Also, the Twitter API does not support CORS, so I don't think you'll be successful trying to use it from a browser extension.
I am working on a data mining system and one of the requirements is it being able to perform the analysis without the use of API. Is there a way to download the Twitter database (or a big part of it, at least) and work with it locally?
There is a paper about creating corpora from twitter. It is called “TWORPUS – An Easy-to-Use Tool for the Creation of Tailored Twitter Corpora”. I recommend to read it because it also covers licensing issues etc. They also provide there code on Github.
In fact, you cannot download the twitter data dumps directly. I can download single tweets and stored them in a corpus. But, it is also not allowed to share that data. Therefore, the authors built the Tworpus client to create private twitter corpora.
APIs are the official way of getting Twitter data and they work really well so it is not comprehensible why you do not want to use APIs. The web scraping is a work around but not recommended, in addition you would like to get a big part of it, so I do not think you will be satisfied with it. You can also buy the data from Gnip.
Can anyone please share me the idea to retrieve the deleted and Edited tweet list(user timeline) after the given time? using twitter rest API.
AFAIK this isn't part of the REST API, I think you have 3 choices here.
Avoid permanently caching things like timelines and tweets, and refetch timelines which will be updated after deletes.
Periodically refetch timelines and process the deltas for overlapping time ranges.
use the streaming API, which unfortunately would introduce a huge amount of complexity https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/messages-types#status_deletion_notices_delete
Ive searched through stack, but answers are dated. I was wondering if anyone knows what it is to crawl a topic like security. How do I do this by using Twitter? Do I just follow people who tweet about this topic, re-tweet and tweet new things, or is there an exact way of doing this? I then need to make statistical analysis on the data I gather.
You can use Puppeteer to crawl twitter data.
Checkout their github repository here.
This is a repository that crawls twitter data using Puppeteer .
How about using twitter search api (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/search/tweets)
You need to create an app first(or better say register an app) on dev.twitter.com and use search api to query for tweets that contain security (assuming I understood your crawling in the right way). Once you have your tweets you can do statistical analysis on the gathered data.
I use twitteR package on R to crawl twitter data (https://github.com/geoffjentry/twitteR) . It includes simple and useful functions to get twitter data.
I would like to build a web application that tracks some user defined search terms in real-time and provides a real-time visualization. http://www.monitter.com/ is an app I've found that is similar in its requirements. What is the appropriate API to use for it? Initially I thought the streaming API was the obvious choice, but the limitation of one concurrent connection means that I can only track one search term at a time(with one user account). I could get around this by making multiple user accounts, but that seems like the wrong approach.
I looked at user streams but the language for that API seems to be more geared towards desktop applications.
So, what is the most best API for my use case? Thanks.
Actually you can track up to 400 keywords/terms via one streaming API connection.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods#track
Depending on language you are using there are multiple interfaces you can use.
If you are using PHP, then I can suggest Phirehose as it works quite well and has multiple examples for different usages scenarios included.
http://code.google.com/p/phirehose/wiki/Introduction
Whats not there - when processing received tweets you will need to figure out how to match which tweet corresponds to which keyword/term because twitter streaming API gives all matching tweets in one stream.
Investigating further using Firebug, I found that monitter.com simply polls the REST search api every second or so on the client side. This is what I ended up doing as well.