Realtime Tweets
Last night as I was searching, and searching, and searching for a way to archive my tweets (as I have been for a couple of weeks now) and I finally found one. I should clarify that specifically what I wanted to do was to archive, or keep a record of, particular hashtags. I wanted a record of the conversations that my students have on Twitter. I also wanted easy access to the workshop and conference notes I have been taking on Twitter.
At first I was using Twapper Keeper. A great archiving tool. You can type in the hashtag and it will search for every tweet that used it and keep it there for you. I have created two archives with Twapper Keeper, but cannot create anymore because they are currently working on the site and are not accepting new subscriptions. If they were, I would continue to use them. But since I ran into that little snag I was on the hunt again.
A couple of weeks ago I attended a Lucy Calkins workshop and tweeted my notes. I knew that with the increasing number of tweets everyday, a month later I may not be able to retrieve that hashtag unless others were currently tweeting with it. I also knew that every tweet has an url so that they are somewhere in cyberspace. With these two pieces of knowledge I was confident that there would be some FREE tool to do what I needed. There it was, hidden in the lengths of my Google search ~ a little nugget called Google Realtime. Leave it to Google to come up with a simple archive tool! What it does is allows you to search social media. (I apologize ahead of time for not knowing all the ins and outs, but I'm a Tweetaholic so that was really my focus.) It truly is that simple. I put the hash-tag (#lucycalkins) in and BAM it pulled up every tweet with the hash-tag! Here are a few I've been able to do, elapsed time not being an issue:
At first I was using Twapper Keeper. A great archiving tool. You can type in the hashtag and it will search for every tweet that used it and keep it there for you. I have created two archives with Twapper Keeper, but cannot create anymore because they are currently working on the site and are not accepting new subscriptions. If they were, I would continue to use them. But since I ran into that little snag I was on the hunt again.
A couple of weeks ago I attended a Lucy Calkins workshop and tweeted my notes. I knew that with the increasing number of tweets everyday, a month later I may not be able to retrieve that hashtag unless others were currently tweeting with it. I also knew that every tweet has an url so that they are somewhere in cyberspace. With these two pieces of knowledge I was confident that there would be some FREE tool to do what I needed. There it was, hidden in the lengths of my Google search ~ a little nugget called Google Realtime. Leave it to Google to come up with a simple archive tool! What it does is allows you to search social media. (I apologize ahead of time for not knowing all the ins and outs, but I'm a Tweetaholic so that was really my focus.) It truly is that simple. I put the hash-tag (#lucycalkins) in and BAM it pulled up every tweet with the hash-tag! Here are a few I've been able to do, elapsed time not being an issue:
- Reading Genres in Grades 3- 5 (notes from Lucy Calkins's workshop)
- Fat City (notes from a grad class)
- Assistive Technology for All Students (notes from a NEAT workshop)
- Kate DiCamillo Book Clubs (my students' tweets about their books)
- Properties of Matter (my students' tweets about their learning experiences with matter)
- I Spy My Town (students' tweets about their town)
- Rocks and Minerals (more to come)
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