The Archivist

1.0

Archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis.

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Version:

1.0
Publisher:

MIX Online
Date added:

Dec 28, 2011
Operating systems:

Windows
File size:

0.38 MB
File name:

setup.exe
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3
License:

Freeware
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Software Description

The Archivist is a Windows application that helps you archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis. Start a search with The Archivist and get as many results as it can. The, leave The Archivist running and it will poll Twitter for that search.

The key aspect to The Archivist is using Twitter Search. To learn more about creating Twitter Searches, read their documentation on search operators. Once you know what you want to search, simply enter it into The Archivist textbox. The Archivist will pull as many results as it can for that search, up to 1500 results, which is the current maximum allowed by Twitter at this time. Also, note that the search will only go back in time for a set amount, usually around 3-4 weeks. You can't get at tweets through Twitter Search that are older.

Once you have started a search, The Archivist will continue to monitor that search term while you leave it open, refreshing itself every ten minutes. You can save the results from your search and reopen it at a later time. Once you save the results to your file system, The Archivist will automatically save any new tweets that come in, so you only need to click save one time. If you would like to perform a different search, you will need to click "Reset" and enter a new term.

If you would like to have multiple searches going simultaneously, you need to launch multiple instances of The Archivist. Beware -- with too many instances of The Archivist open, you could get rate limited by Twitter.

If your search term has lots of Twitter traffic, you will probably want to leave The Archivist running, because there is a chance you will miss some tweets. For example, let's say you do a search, save the results, close The Archivist and then reopen that search the next day. If there have been more than 1500 tweets since the last time you ran the search, there will be a gap in your archive.

If you would like to see the Twitter homepage for a user of a given tweet, you can click their avatar, which will launch a browser that takes you to the person's Twitter homepage.

The Archivist allows you to see a chart that shows tweets per day on a given search. You can toggle between the chart and the list of tweets by using the View Chart or View Tweets selection in the menu.

For deeper data analysis, there are two options.

The first option is to export The Archivist data to Excel. When you click Export To Excel, The Archivist will create a tab delimited text file which you can then open in Excel. Double-clicking the file won't open Excel; you will have to launch Excel and then open the text file from within Excel by looking for the file type .txt. You will then be prompted to import the file; just accept all the defaults and you should be good to go.

The second option is to do something with the .xml file that is the default way The Archivist saves files. The schema for the .xml is super simple and any programmer savvy with XML should be able to party on it pretty easily.

Key features:

- Save the tweets you care about onto your computer. Use The Archivist to run searches on Twitter and then save those tweets for your archives or data-analysis.

- Export your saved tweets to a tab delimited text file and view the information in Excel. From there, run charts, graphs, or other analysis on the tweets and discover trends.

- The Archivist comes with two visualizations to show you the Tweet volume over time and top users. Also, by exporting archives to Excel, you can run rich visualizations.

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The Archivist is periodically updated by our editors team but sometimes you may find out that software informations are outdated, please note that the publisher of The Archivist can update the software without notifying us. Current version of The Archivist is 1.0.

Note: Soft-Go doesn't provide any form of technical support regarding The Archivist, however, you may find answer to your problem by reading user reviews or directly contacting MIX Online which's the publisher/developer of this software.