Category: Social Networks
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Using TheHerdLocker.com to find the *good* content on Twitter
Some time ago I learned about TheHerdlocker.com from a post on ResearchBuzz. Since then, it's grown a bit, and I've been receiving useful weekly updates to a few hashtags I like to follow on the Twitter. In a nutshell, rather than you creating a column within Tweetdeck to collect all mentions of a given hashtag,…
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Hydrator is my new favourite tool to hydrate tweet-ids (aka so many tools!)
Update – April 18, 2023: From the developer: Twitter's changes to their API which greatly reduce the amount of read-only access means that the Hydrator is no longer a useful application. The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter. For the past couple of weeks I've been helping…
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Here’s how to monitor for disappearing or changing news online
Over the weekend Ed Summers released a tool called diffengine that monitors an RSS feed and then posts captures of any changed text to Twitter. It's meant for monitoring news sites, but could be used for anything that has an RSS feed. Useful for monitoring your news site of choice for disappearing news, but also reports that…
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Archive of tweets from Semantic Web in Libraries (swib) 2016
As I did last year, I have captured all the tweets from this year's Semantic Web in Libraries conference using the TAGS tool for Google Sheets. As of this posting there are 630 tweets with the hashtag #SWIB, 573 of them unique. Last year had 1,736 tweets! with 1,633 of them unique. Here's the archive…
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National Research Council peer reviewed publications – a data mining or data viz opportunity?
Surely someone smarter than me can think of something interesting to do with the following? National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2015 National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2014 National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2013 National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2012 Each of these contains citation information for peer reviewed scientific and technical…
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Two web-based communication tools
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried either of these, but have heard the results of the first one, and the second one is such a good review it must be worth a look, right? 🙂 First up, a web-based podcast-recording studio called Cast. Awful name, IMHO, as it's hard to find amongst all the ChromeCast results…
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Anatomy of an Information Trap, Part II: Setting Up and Sharing Google Alerts
Tara Calishain at ResearchBuzz has posted part 2 of her 3 part series on creating and working with information traps, Setting up and sharing Google alerts. In this post I learned how to automatically create and populate columns in a Google Sheet using IFTTT. Off the top of my head I can think of at…
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How many US senators follow Edward Snowden on Twitter?
TLDR: 0 Last week I was intrigued when this paper came out: Trust, tribalism and tweets: has political polarization made science a “wedge issue”?. In it, "Helmuth and his Northeastern colleagues analyzed the Twitter accounts of U.S. senators to see which legislators followed research-oriented science organizations, including those covering global warming. Democrats, they found, were…
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Buffer introduces academic pricing
A while back I started using Buffer to schedule posts to my social media accounts. I was always kind of annoyed when someone spammed my twitter feed with 20 posts during the 5 minutes they found themselves on twitter, and I didn't want to be that person back. First world problem, I know 😉 Anyhoo, Buffer…
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Open Refine – not the right tool for this job (twitter archiving and geolocation)
A week or so ago I came across a series of posts from Spencer Greenhalgh in which he described how he used R to take a large group of collected tweets around the terrorist attacks in Paris in order to geolocate them on a map. The trouble is that very few users actually include geolocation information in…