Hi,
I’m working on a pretty cool research project, and I’d need some twitter historical data.
The idea is to build a tool that look for correlations between social media data (basically tweets) and consumer spending habits in a particular area. Once a promising correlation has been found, the second step is to apply a machine learning model for prediction, and measure its performance.
I already have the anonymous financial data, but I don’t know where to find an API or historic database of tweets for that period (6 months between 2012/2013). I’ve asked to Datasift and they kindly pointed me to their subscription plans (starting at $5K), which are far out of my budget as a personal research pet project.
Do twitter offer any student/research plan to acces the historical data. I’d only need to perform historical searches on Barcelona area, from Nov 2012 to Apr 2013 in order to create the learning datasets.
Thanks,
Victor
