Tweet archive

From Nasatweetup

On September 5th, 2011 around 3pm, @jonverve  enabled the archive section of the nasatweet.com site. It can be accessed at this link:

• http://nasatweet.com/archive

The purpose of this section of the site is to archive all the tweets with the #NASATweetup hashtag, thus preserving them for further analysis and archival. I am using the yourTrapperKeeper (yTK) PHP software on the server, which is a crawler that captures all these tweets through the Twitter API.

Contents 1 Streams being captured 2 Other archives 3 Export 4 Help 4.1 Forums 4.2 Tools to analyze data 5 Other ways of archiving

Streams being captured

1. nasatweetup - gets the hashtag and mentions of the @nasatweetup  account (NASA)
2. spacetweetup - gets the hashtag and mentions of the @spacetweetup  account (ESA/DLR)
3. cnestweetup - gets the hashtag for the @cnes_france  Paris Ariane launch tweetup (CNES)
4. dm3 - gets the hashtag for the @ATKOutreach  DM3 engine test tweetup in Utah (ATK)
5. mars500tweetup - gets the hashtag for the @mars_500  Rome tweetup (ESA)
6. atvtweetup - gets the hashtag for the @esa  and @cnes_france  Toulouse ATV3 docking tweetup (ESA/CNES)
7. isutweetup - gets the hashtag for the @ISU_Tweet  Strasbourg ISU 50th anniversary tweetup (ISU)
8. marstweetup - gets the hashtag for the @oewf  Dachstein Austria Mars simulation tweetup (ÖWF)

Others can be authorized to add streams to be captured, just mention @jonverve  on twitter and he will set you up.

If you end up adding another stream, please add it to this list.

Other archives

• Main Twapperkeeper site for #NASATweetup archive. Contains a total of 226043 tweets as of 09-2011. Archive begins: 11-15-2009 http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/nasatweetup (one drawback is, cannot export tweets, whereas on this site you can)
• GRAIL Archive (Sept 7-10th, 2011) by @nessyhill : http://www.overtheroygbiv.com/2011/09/nasatweetup-calendar/
• JSC Tweetup (Feb 17th, 2010) http://twapperkeeper.com/allnotebooks.php?type=&name=&description=nasatweetup&tag=&created_by=

Export

This software can export tweets in a number of structured formats, including: RSS, Excel, JSON, and a simply HTML table (with no formatting). Check it out!

Help

When you view a stream archive, you can limit the query. Don't worry if you only see 10 tweets on the list. That is because by default it only shows 10, but you can select from the pull down and view more.

Forums

You can learn more about and get help with the yTK software here:

• Google group
• Get Satisfaction Community Support site

Tools to analyze data

Here are a list of tools that may be helpful if you don't know where to start in analyzing the tweets:

• NodeXL - a plug-in for MS Excel (only on PC's unfortunately) which allows you to see interactions on Twitter/Facebook and other social networks, great graphing and analysis techniques
  • NodeXL - in the classroom
• michaeldhealy.com blog post - measuring the reach of tweeps, using twapperkeeper
• social network analysis
• sentiment analysis - most tricky!

Other ways of archiving

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_your_tweets.php