#1

I have no idea if I’m in the right place.

In essence, I’d like to analyse my own tweets and others, building social media mindmaps/analytical graphs. I know there are specific social media tools for this, but wonder if using Twitter API also offers something?

All advice welcome, even if it’s to tell me to log out and use something else.
Thanks

#2

Twitter APIs will give you a lot of data, but it’s entirely up to you to retrieve, store, analyse, visualise etc.

Any other service that offers some sort of twitter-based analysis will be using the API in some way underneath. What part of the API is relevant to you depends on what exactly you want to do.

This is a good place to start without a significant coding effort: https://tags.hawksey.info/

For using twitter to teach, this is the way to do it: Developer portal overview | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

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#3

Have you check this link out…

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#4

Hi and Welcome @TeacherToolkit

Please also check out this page Twitter API for Academic Research | Products | Twitter Developer Platform that provides more insights into available third party tools as well as academic research use cases.

Based on the use case you provided, you can apply for access to our APIs using https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access.html . Once you have access to the Twitter data, you should be able to build graphs etc. using libraries of your choice such as ggplot2 in R or Matplotlib in Python etc.

Hope this helps, feel free to reach out if you have additional questions specific to your PhD research

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