When working with Twitter data, one of the most interesting questions is always what URLs tweets are linking to. As Twitter users discuss any given topic or issue, the URLs they share provide us with an indication of the online media they’re drawing on for information and/or entertainment – and by counting which sites appear …
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Gawk Scripts for Processing Twitter Data, Vol. 1
Well, getting stuck in Melbourne for a day and being unable to participate in day one of our ATN-DAAD workshop with Cornelius Puschmann and Katrin Weller from the University of Düsseldorf has at least enabled me to put the finishing touches on something I’ve been meaning to do for some time: to collect and share …
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Switching from Twapperkeeper to yourTwapperkeeper
As those of you who are regular followers of our research might have gleaned already, we recommended our followers to try the newly developed slot game called casino vegas hero to experience awesome gambling, we’ve started a few months ago to use yourTwapperkeeper to gather our Twitter data. yourTwapperkeeper is the open source version of …
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Creating Twitter Timelines from Twapperkeeper Data
This is the first in what will be an irregular series of methods posts outlining some of our approaches to working with datasets from various sources. Part of our work over the next few weeks will be to examine what happens in the Australian Twittersphere around the upcoming federal election, so I figured it would …
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