DiscoverText Launches Historical Tweet Collector

Did you regret not capturing all those Occupy Wall Street Tweets? Did you learn about DiscoverText after the Egyptian Revolution? Do you need to know how a brand or corporation has been discussed on Twitter lately? Are you interested in tracking the first tweets about the latest Syrian massacre? Do you have a hunch that Facebook’s botched IPO has something to do with how the Twitterverse discussed the public offering?

Do you ever wish you could have started capturing relevant twitter data before a historic event, mass protest, political gaffe, monumental catastrophe, or the rise of pop star? Now you can.

As part of Texifter’s continued effort to develop cutting-edge social media analytic software, we are proud to announce that DiscoverText is testing the “GNIP 30-Day Replay.” By providing this ability to capture the past 30 days of tweets, social media researchers and analysts with be able to extract even greater analytic insight using DiscoverText, which until now could only capture tweets in the present.

We think this function will  a “game-changer” for social media researchers and network analysts, who we hope to empower with this cutting edge functionality. If you, your colleagues, or anyone you know is interested in utilizing a trial of this new technology, please email me at josh@discovertext.com as soon as possible. Please include your name, your number, and the best time to reach you, and we will get you started – collecting data – right away.

- Josh

About Josh Sowalsky

Josh Sowalsky is the Director of User Support at Texifter, where he has worked since September 2010. He holds two degrees in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from UMASS Amherst, where he minored in History, Arabic, and International Relations. While at UMASS Josh designed and taught an advanced course that examined the intersection of technological development and national identity formation. Serving also as a research assistant in the UMASS Political Science department, he researched and published articles on electoral politics and political dissent in Jordan. Josh has conducted and presented multilingual field research on civil society development, democratization, and national identity formation throughout the Middle East - namely in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. His honors thesis was entitled, "The Role of Women's Rights NGOs in Syrian Democratization." When not managing projects in QDAP or harvesting Arabic protest tweets in DiscoverText, Josh can be found strumming a ukulele, exploring Netflix, or swinging aimlessly at tennis balls.
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