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Transcript of the #cilip2 Twitter hastag

Despite a widespread network failure that seemed to affect quite a few universities, I finally managed to pick up all of the #cilip2 tweets from today's event: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/cilip2.html

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Whenever I get a spare half-an-hour, I'll do some analysis of the tweets. If anyone want a tab separated version of the data, you can grab it from here.

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  1. [...] when he wrote software to harvest tweets containing the the #cilip2 tag. And not only is a record of the discussions, annotated with the time of posting, now available, a Wordle cloud is also available (and shown [...]

  2. Lyndsay says:

    Thanks for this Dave. Really useful to see a full transcipt especially as tweets were coming in so thick and fast that they had rolled off the screen before reading them all (viewing via twitterfall and screened in the room for flesh and blood participants to see)!

    BTW I think that the time log is about 60 mins out as the session started at 2.30pm

  3. Dave Pattern says:

    I've updated the two files so they contain tweets from after the event. If they don't appear, please try clearing your browser cache!

  4. Joss says:

    Dave,

    Have you looked at feedvis, a self-hosted tool to create interactive, hyperlinked word clouds on a timeline from an OPML file?

    We use it on WriteToReply:
    http://writetoreply.org/extras/feedvis/?account=digitalbritain

    There's a link to the developer's site where you can download it.

  5. Dave Pattern says:

    Hi Lyndsay

    The Twitter search API returns time as GMT/UTC, so you'll need to add an hour on to get British Summer Time.

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