Comments on: Alternatives To Twapper Keeper

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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:54:22 +0000

[...] is yes. Twitter doesn’t make it very easy to archive tweets, and indeed deletes them. Brian Kelly has a post and ensuing discussion about curating alternatives. Meanwhile, I’ve used Storify to order the tweets and add commentary. It makes it easy to [...]

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:59:36 +0000

Hi Brian,
Been thinking for a while about twitter in education – especially stuff like twitter journal clubs – http://www.twitjc.com/ – as an example.
So I made a WordPress plugin to archive tweets, and display them nicely – so it’s a storify and twapper keeper – although if you want to store a very popular term – it’s probably not going to be fast enough (it searches once every two minutes – as long as some one is on the site).

Links for those who are interested

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twordstore/

and

https://github.com/patlockley/WordPress-Twordstore

Pat

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:59:56 +0000

Just to let your reader know there is a new version of this Spreadsheet soultion. Improved code, more features including a better dashboard view http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/ (here’s what dev8d looks like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqGkLMU9sHmLdHZZcVpHZ2RNTmd1bDZvQnlFSTh3aEE#gid=101 )

Enjoy!

By: James Burke (@deburca)

James Burke (@deburca) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:52:44 +0000

The Archivist (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/archivist) is also worth a look if you install an instance of your own (export now disabled from hosted version: http://archivist.visitmix.com/about/faq)

By: mhawksey

mhawksey — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:27:17 +0000

Thanks Brian for highlighting my Google Spreadsheet solution! Hopefully others, like John O'Brien (creator of Twapper Keeper), will "love the simplicity of the google spreadsheet solution" [ref] ;) There is still more value to be gained from hashtag archives. In many cases they are as rice if not richer resources than the official conference proceedings (an advantage of using Google Spreadsheets is they sit in the cloud and can be used as an open data source for others to mash and hack). Martin

By: lescarr

lescarr — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:23:13 +0000

Another alternative will soon be to use your institutional repository… http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2011/10/using-eprints-repositories-to-collect.html

We’ve got a beta version out at the moment in the EPrints Bazaar, but we’re testing the final version to make sure that it can resiliently handle sustained high rates of tweeting and large collections of millions of tweets.

I’m afraid we succumbed to the silly Twitter naming convention – it’s called Tweepository.

By: Eddie Byrne

Eddie Byrne — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:31:37 +0000

Thanks Brian, I must keep an eye on this conversation and look into the Google spreadsheet tool. Eddie

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:15:55 +0000

Hi Eddie
Tweetbackup and Tweetake (along with Backupmytweets, which I use) can me used to backup tweets posted from your own Twitter account. Twapper Keeper was used primarily to backup tweets for a hashtag which may have been posted by multiple users. Twapper Keeper was often used to keep a record of event tweets, such as #ILI2011.

By: Eddie Byrne

Eddie Byrne — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:00:08 +0000

Brian, we have been using tweetbackup.com, which allows you to export your tweets in any of the following formats: csv file, RSS, text file, html. An alternative is tweetake.com, which allows you to backup as a csv file only. Have never used twapper keeper, so am not aware of what it might have offered over and above tweetbackup.com.
Regards,
Eddie Byrne,
Dublin City Public Libraries