Comments on: Using Google Spreadsheets to extract Twitter data

By: edidigit

edidigit — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:35:52 +0000

may I know where I have to type the symbol for # or @ in before or after the name? in the Search Criteria?!

Do you know the code for $ sign in twitter?

By: Wanda

Wanda — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:33:13 +0000

Brendon-
Thanks for the very useful and clearly explained solution. Is there any more information about how to extract ALL of the tweets relating to a particular keyword? Also, is it possible to use an advanced search script in the spreadsheet? I haven’t been able to do either yet.

Thanks again,
Wanda

By: 22ian22

22ian22 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:26:00 +0000

Looks like it started working when I logged out and logged back in lol. Weird, must be some google thing.

Back on track though, now that I have this working I’ve been able to play around for a few min, and I thought of one other question. I see I can search for lets say ‘brelson’ to find tweets with that included. Do you have a way that you would recommend me use so I can look specifically at tweets that were sent TO brelson? so basically the keyword was referenced or in the tweet.

By: 22ian22

22ian22 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:06:13 +0000

WEIRD though, after 15 minutes of having a window with a bunch of errors after my last attempt, I’ve done absolutely nothing but all of the sudden the results are there now. What the heck??? lol

By: 22ian22

22ian22 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:05:38 +0000

I realized it may be from using real excel, so I duplicated everything in Google Docs and I’m getting the same thing.

Also, to guarantee no area I just copied from your google doc to mine and same thing:(

By: brelson

brelson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:06:45 +0000

@22ian22 – have you copied it into Excel? If so that may be why you’re seeing those errors. You need to use it inside Google Spreadsheets for it to work.

The “Twitter search” tabs are working for me in Google Spreadsheets, but there does seem to be an issue with the Backtweets formulas. I’ll take a look into that and update when fixed…

By: 22ian22

22ian22 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:54:26 +0000

Does this still work? I made a copy of the excel and entered a search term then clicked Return. Fields on ever tab say #VALUE so I assume that’s the problem. There don’t seem to be formulas anywhere.

By: Karl G. Siewert

Karl G. Siewert — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:22:49 +0000

This is very exciting. It’s awfully close to something I’m wanting to do, but not quite.

I want to track what I read by sending tweets to a particular account whenever I start or stop a book. Is there a way to just follow one account and extract direct messages sent to it?

By: imbenzene

imbenzene — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:37:41 +0000

Hi
Is any modification plausible that can convert like data into csv or xls very effectively. THough twitoaster provides API but its not feasile for non-programmers like me.
All I need is conversation data, i.e. activity of a particular tweets of a user to be presented as replies or retweets as xls data.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

By: imbenzene

imbenzene — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:36:12 +0000

Is any modification plausible that can convert like data into csv or xls very effectively. THough twitoaster provides API but its not feasile for non-programmers like me.
All I need is conversation data, i.e. activity of a particular tweets of a user to be presented as replies or retweets as xls data.
Any help would be highly appreciated.