{"id":752,"date":"2011-12-13T23:32:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/?p=752"},"modified":"2011-12-13T23:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T23:32:31","slug":"twaperkeeper-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/2011\/twaperkeeper-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"TwaperKeeper archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TwapperKeeper is <a href=\"http:\/\/ukwebfocus.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/11\/the-forthcoming-demise-of-twapperkeeper\/\">shutting down<\/a> it seems. It&#8217;s a popular online tool for archiving hashtags and other twitter searchers, and certainly well used in UK Higher Education where I work. I actually met John O&#8217;Brien, founder of TwapperKeeper, when he attended <a href=\"http:\/\/dev8d.org\/\">Dev8D<\/a> (a developer event for those working in UK HE) a couple of years a go, nice chap.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"http:\/\/mashe.hawksey.info\/2011\/12\/free-the-tweet\/\">Martin Hawksey has created a wonderful tool<\/a> for archiving, ummm, archives before they are gone. The tool is actually a Google Spreadsheet and to me it&#8217;s a testament to Google Docs power that an application that fetches and stores data from another site can be created using it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my Twappers. Saved thanks to Martin&#8217;s brilliant spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AhQrW07ARKGcdHNXcDE2UXh4SmJFZUJ5SnhBS0tMVEE\">UKSG<\/a> is an organisation whose members are mainly University Libraries and Publishers. While I only attended their conference for the first time this year, it seems I was the person who originally created a TwapperKeeper archive, you can access the document by clicking the link (and if you&#8217;re signed in to Google Docs you can save a copy etc), note you need to click the archive tab at the bottom.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AhQrW07ARKGcdDE1VEZVcThiQnFCTldQZUlHYVl5c1E\">data.gov.uk<\/a> &#8211; again nothing really to do with me, but an archive of tweets mentioning data.gov.uk (again, click the archive worksheet tab at the bottom)<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AhQrW07ARKGcdDUycmJQVTNheElyVHpha1JrRVRZaVE\">bcb4<\/a> &#8211; Barcamp Brighton 4. I attended this event a couple of years a go<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AhQrW07ARKGcdGw4ZWNTajJvSVYxWGI3TUxiSWJSZXc\">dilsr<\/a> &#8211; Developing Innovative Library Support for Researchers. Not only did the twitter archives of this event, held at Sussex last year, almost disappear, but the <a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"http:\/\/librarysupportingresearch.ning.com\/\">website<\/a> originally on ning has already gone with the dodo.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0AhQrW07ARKGcdEYxV3dYWWlyMnk1MWJ1YXI4UC1hZnc\">nickcleggsfault<\/a> &#8211; during the run up to the election the Lib Dems looks like they may come a respectable third place rather than a distant third place. Our great papers put their usual impartial views to one side to &#8211; for the sake of Britain &#8211; destroy the Lib Dem leader. Twitter decided to join in. (I <a class=\"libx-autolink\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dotted;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/2010\/nick-cleggs-fault-beware-the-real-nasty\/\">blogged about some of the articles for one day<\/a> at the time). For some reason, I can only get 4,500 tweets, I think a tweet around that point is causing an error, I will try to get more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I make no claim on owning any of the data. I&#8217;m guessing the original tweeters do. Or maybe Twitter Inc. Or Facebook. Actually it&#8217;s definitely Facebook. And it&#8217;s already alerted your mum that you&#8217;re reading this. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I only attended their conference for the first time this year, it seems I was the person who originally created a TwapperKeeper archive, you can access the document by clicking the link (and if you&#8217;re signed in to Google Docs you can save a copy etc), note you need to click the archive tab at the bottom.   data.gov.uk  &#8211; again nothing really to do with me, but an archive of tweets mentioning data.gov.uk (again, click the archive worksheet tab at the bottom)   bcb4  &#8211; Barcamp Brighton 4. &#8230;  Not only did the twitter archives of this event, held at Sussex last year, almost disappear, but the  website  originally on ning has already gone with the dodo.   nickcleggsfault  &#8211; during the run up to the election the Lib Dems looks like they may come a respectable third place rather than a distant third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[70,187],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-and-blogs","tag-google","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}