Research Guides: Twitter Data: Collecting Your Own Twitter Data

2023 Twitter Updates

NOTE: As of February 13th, 2023, Twitter is planning to eliminate free access to its APIs for all users, including academic researchers.

This blog post from the University of Washington and this NPR article explain some additional details and what's expected in the researcher community.

Beginners Guide to Twitter Data
From The Programming Historian and designed for someone with minimal programming experience.
Collecting Social Media Data for Research
Step-by-step guide using TAGS plug-in for Google sheets.

DocNow
A web app for appraising, collecting, and obtaining consent for Tweets.
Hydrator
Hydrator is an Electron based desktop application for hydrating Twitter ID datasets.
rTweet
Twitter client using R. Designed for analyzing and visualizing Twitter data, not collection.
Social Feed Manager
Open source software that harvests social media data and web resources from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo. The supported architecture is Docker containers.
twarc
twarc is a command line tool and Python library for archiving Twitter JSON data
tweepy
A popular Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

Twitter Archiving Google Sheet (TAGS)
Collect tweets with a simple plug-in that works with Google Sheets.