Twapper Keeper, Twitter Archives
Posted by Celia Walter | 14 Oct, 2010October 13, 2010 20:42 Resourceshelf.
Permanently archiving tweets (and having access to them offline) from a conference, special event or by following a user or keyword has been easily and effectively accomplished since June, 2009 when John O'Brien began the Twapper Keeper tweet archive service as a something "fun with the API" while his family was out of town.
However, the last 16 months has been crazy. User demand for raw Twitter data sets has continued to increase. Major world events were captured, exported, and analyzed. Small businesses, major brands, market researchers, conference leaders, and academia continued to ask for more data. And the data sets continued to grow…
Twapper Keeper is a free service. However, you can now purchase the program to run on a local server.
You can quickly export an archive directly into Excel (for offline analysis) and use the Summarizr service from the Eduserv Labs in the UK.
Example:
A Twapper Keeper Archive for #rugby.
At the top of the page you'll see options to limit by date and language. You can also choose how you display the order of results and the number of results on a page. You can search for tweets in the archive from a specific user or by keyword. Finally, you can decide if you want or do not want to see retweets.
Several lines down the page you can get quick archive stats via Summarizr and find additional download options. Some very useful intelligence with a single click.
Twapper Keeper is a free service that receives funding from JISC and UKOLN in the UK.
If you tweet or engage in various types of research and marketing, it's a service that you might want to know about if you haven't used it yet. Again, you're building an archive(s) based on hashtags, an @ symbol, by keyword and creating event or subject focused archives. It is not possible to search the entire database of tweets.
Congrats to John O'Brien and Now On To Two Billion!
Source: Twapper Keeper's Blog
See Also: You do not have to first visit Twapper Keeper to Take
Advantage of the Intelligence Available (For Free) via Summarizr.
Just head to this URL and enter the # hashtag, keyword, account name, or
Twapper Keeper Archive URL.