Archiving social media content/context - more questions than answers? [ABSTRACT]
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By Jennifer Jones

Abstract

As Twitter does not provide a long term storage solution for tweets this leaves researchers with a dilemma. How should tweets be stored so that both the content and the context are retained, and the resource is searchable? Jennifer Jones looks at the possibilities but concludes that there are still more questions than answers.

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As Twitter does not provide a long term storage solution for tweets this leaves researchers with a dilemma. How should tweets be stored so that both the content and the context are retained, and the resource is searchable? Jennifer Jones looks at the possibilities but concludes that there are still more questions than answers.

What’s inside

Twitter only stores and around five days.There are solutions, such as the Twitter archiver TwapperKeeper which allows for the external capture of tweets via a spreadsheet. However, after recent reports of closure and then subsequent reopening of the ability to export and download tweets from Twitter’s API, many discussions have been sparked around the long lasting alternatives for storing Twitter data for later use. It is not simply a case of collecting and managing data, but instead it’s about trying to seek and explore the best method in which to maintain context before it crumbles away. Similarly, there is no catch-up solution, nor are these ideas exhaustive in their approach.

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