Discover your first Tweet. Bluenod | Visualize communities. Build a simple Twitter tracker using our template. Skip to main content Make Me Smarter Build a simple Twitter tracker using our template By Andy Cotgreave December 4, 2013 inShare Do you wish there was an easy way to build a Twitter tracker for your event/campaign/brand? You can also see lots of other Twitter trackers by clicking in the links in this Bitly bundle: Twitter Vizzes Learn more about Social Media Analytics Comments Amazingly useful Think this concept of ready built workbooks where you just change source file is a real winner Great stuff cheers for this Andy. @pbanoub www.vizninja.com Hi Andy, looks cool but it seems there is a new version of ScraperWiki and it is not clear which offer to go for there, could you confirm please?
HI Xavier - sorry about the delay in repying. I've a problem with this template when connect to my own CSV data from ScraperWiki. Error message! Here is the error preventing opening the csv... Unable to open the text file. The table "tweets#csv" does not exist. Extract tables from PDFs, download tweets, and scrape the web. Visualize your Twitter network. Harvesting and Analyzing Tweets. Twitter is a fabulous source for information.
Whenever something is happening, people around the world start tweeting away. Often they include hashtags, allowing us to selectively search for tweets about a certain event or thing. Many twitter users also engage in conversations, and looking at these conversations allows us to identify leaders and frequent actors. In this lesson, we will look how to harvest tweets from Twitter using ScraperWiki and how to analyse them using social network analysis and software called Gephi. What you will need Harvesting Tweets using ScraperWiki The first thing we need to do is to get tweets out of Twitter. There are various tools to get tweets out of Twitter. Walkthrough: Harvesting tweets with ScraperWiki Sign in to ScraperWiki.In your “data hub” (the page you get to after signing in), click the big “create a new dataset” field. View in a tableTo effectively work with it, download it as a spreadsheet.
Well done—now you’ve downloaded a dataset full of tweets! Maurizio’s data hub | ScraperWiki. OpenRefine.