Tag Archives: Twitter API

200 Million Document Milestone

Only a few months ago, DiscoverText’s data ingest counter was steadily moving toward 100 million documents. This week, the software’s document ingest counter will cross the 200 million document line. You can see this for yourself on our homepage. With … Continue reading

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Holiday Shopping Update

From now until the New Year signals the close of the holiday season, Texifter analysts will focus DiscoverText’s tools on holiday shoppers. We will take a close look at their behavior and sentiment as they hit the stores during the … Continue reading

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DiscoverText Introduces Tools for Random Sampling

DiscoverText is rolling-out an addition to its analytical toolkit: random sampling. The Web-service already offers an array of tools for text analytics and rigorous, team-based qualitative data analysis. These functions include the ability to code and annotate text, measure inter-rater … Continue reading

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Apple Shake-Up, Part II: Tweets in Memoriam

On October 5th, the passing of Steve Jobs rocked the world. Millions were touched by the loss of one of the world’s great innovators who has firmly joined the ranks of Guttenberg, Franklin, and Edison. Over the 24 hours following … Continue reading

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The Crazy Life of a Tweet

On the evening of May 1st, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Over the following hours (and days), bin Laden was mentioned by millions across the twitterverse. Among the first of those tweets came from a young, gay, homeschooled … Continue reading

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Twitter and History March On

The Twistory saga continues. The tech news is full of stories these days about firms delivering social media brand management and public opinion results, all magically derived from massive tweet collections. Whether prudent or not, people want to know what … Continue reading

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Throttled, or Not?

I was watching TweetDeck rattle off reactions to the end of “Twistory” and the “Dustin of Twistory” when my son came in an asked: Why is your tweet stream being throttled? I had missed the message in small print, but … Continue reading

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Data We Can Share

Since we had to take down our 1.2 million “Osama bin Laden” tweets, we substituted data we can share gathered from Facebook to satisfy the curiosity of researchers who don’t normally handle big data but might want to dip their … Continue reading

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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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1.2 Million “osama” & “bin laden” Tweets…and Counting

On the May 1, 2011 evening it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, we started running repeated fetches against the Twitter API for the terms “osama” and “bin laden”. On May 3, we posted more than 1.2 … Continue reading

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Harvesting Twitter Tweets

Using the Twitter API, we have made it easy to archive massive numbers of Twitter tweets. This short video demonstrates just how easy we have made it for you to do research on Twitter. Tweet This Post

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