Comments on: Save Your Tweets from Computers and Writing 2009

By: Academic Sandbox (the blog) » Archiving Tweets: A Simple Way to Use PHP, MySQL, and the Twitter API to Save Stuff

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:04:38 +0000

[...] during the Computers & Writing 2009 conference, Karl Stolley wrote a post asking everyone to save their tweets tagged with #cw09. His post provided instructions for the non-scripting way for archiving tweets: [...]

By: JM

JM — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:14:09 +0000

I have 1509 #cw09-tagged tweets stored. Earliest one is just before midnight on June 18th, so I have the bulk of the tweeted conference _that was tagged_. I saved the following values via the api: lang,src,screen name,text,creation time,to_user,from_user,in_reply_to_user. so…we can do some analysis or archiving or..whatever. I can export however anyone wants.

Note: it doesn’t include tweets that people at #cw09 tweeted w/o hashtag, so that’s where personal data grabbing would come into play. I could look at the archive and see who tweeted with the hashtag, then go grab ALL their tweets, but that seems a little privacy-iffy. I could easily throw a little form interface around the script so that people could enter their username and add to the archive, or…something else? Maybe if there were a specific plan to do something, people would be more apt to add their stuff to the db?

By: Curious.Judith

Curious.Judith — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:46:39 +0000

[...] with the DH09 twapperkeeper: the start date is after the conference began. They refer to “Save Your Tweets from Computers and Writing 2009 – source/literacy.” It describes essentially the same method i used for JCDL, but limiting to one’s own [...]

By: advee77

advee77 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:31:35 +0000

Hey Karl,

Thanks for the directions and your digital archiving sk1llZZZ. Here are my tweets for all to see (just one page): https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/avee/ftp/advee77-cw09-page-1.rss.txt

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-A