Tag Archives: API

The First Draft of ‘Twistory’ Revisited – An Update on (Not) Sharing Twitter Collections

Researchers like new datasets. Many of us build tools and techniques that work nicely with existing data, but may perform poorly with “out-of-sample” datasets. The ability to generate new and interesting big datasets, especially ones that draw a crowd of … Continue reading

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Twitter Asks DiscoverText to Stop Sharing Tweet Data

It looks like the sharing of “bin Laden” Tweets I collected using an authorized connection to Twitter via their API is being flagged as a violation of the Twitter API Terms of Service. Let’s be clear. We have never sold a … Continue reading

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Scraping Facebook

Using a core element of the Facebook architecture (the “Graph API”), we have enabled DiscoverText users to “Connect with Facebook” to register their new accounts. You can learn about this option and how to collect data off Facebook by watching … Continue reading

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Text Analysis during the 2011 State of the Union Address

As part of the underlying research Texifter is doing on sentiment and topic analysis, we collected data from various Twitter and Facebook feeds +/- 48 hours during the 2011 State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011. Texifter … Continue reading

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