For my dissertation research, I used the twarc command line and python package to collect tweets related to the flooding in Louisiana during August of 2016. A useful utility which comes with this project is twarc-archive.py which allows passing keywords in which are then used to download all tweets (within the API limits) which mention those words. Each time twarc-archive.py is run, it keeps a running log file of the progress and status of tweets being collected and creates a new .json file.
Welcome to my blog. I hope to use this space to discuss social science research and to share what I learn about programming in R, Python, SQL, and other languages relevant to data science and computational social science methods. I can’t promise any deep wisdom, but hopefully I offer snippets of useful knowledge as I go along.
Cheers, Isaac