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Monitor Middle East Protests

Dear faithful users and intrigued future users of DiscoverText, My name’s Josh and I’m one of 3 user support specialists at Texifter LLC. For my first Texifter blog entry, I’m going to demonstrate how I’ve been using DiscoverText to capture … Continue reading

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70,000 Game of Thrones Tweets

I wanted to test the new Cloud Explorer developed by Texifter as part of the DiscoverText suite of text analysis tools. Since the revisions to the old tag cloud tool were inspired by comments from a Game of Thrones fan, … Continue reading

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Search All Public Facebook Posts

All this week, we’ve been highlighting some of the new features and functionality recently added to DiscoverText. Tonight, Texifter staff is excited to present the ability to search across all available public Facebook posts and pull those comments into a … Continue reading

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Dwindling Osama bin Laden Tweets and the RT Champs

The running count in my DiscoverText “bin Laden” project is ~4.5 million unsharable Tweets. Though we can’t share them, we can describe them. One of the interesting features of this dataset is the rapidly dwindling Tweet rate over the month … 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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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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