Twitter Data in TAGS
As you can see above, TAGS provide an easy way to scrape Twitter data and present it in a spreadsheet format.
The data that you can get via TAGS are :
| TAGS Data Column | Description |
|---|---|
| id_str | A unique code, generated by Twitter, that identifies the Tweet. |
| from_user | The Twitter username (e.g. @"ResBaz") of the user who posted the tweet |
| text | The contents of the tweet (140 characters or less), including any URLs. |
| created_at | The Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) that the Tweet was posted in the following format: Thu Sep 22 02:54:02 +0000 2016 |
| time | The date and time that the Tween was posted in a different format; 22/09/2016 03:54:02. |
| geo_coordinates | The geographical co-ordinates of the location at which the Tweet was sent. This will only be shown if the user has turned on "Tweeting with location" feature. As this is an opt-in feature, many users will not have this enabled. |
| user_lang | The machine detected language of the Tweet. ISO 639-1 langauge codes used. Find the list of codes here. |
| in_reply_to_user_id_str | If the tweet was part of a Twitter conversation (e.g. a reply to another Tweet); the Twitter user ID of the person the tweet was sent to. |
| in_reply_to_user_screen_name | If the tweet was part of a Twitter conversation (e.g. a reply to another Tweet); the Twitter name of the person the tweet was sent to. |
| from_user_id_str | The unique Twitter ID of the user who posted the Tweet. |
| in_reply_to_status_id_str | If the tweet was part of a Twitter conversation (e.g. a reply to another Tweet); the unique code of the original Tweet. |
| profile_image_url | The URL of the profile picture of the Tweeter. |
| user_followers_count | The number of followers the user who posted the Tweet has. |
| user_friends_count | The number of people the user who posted the Tweet is following. |
| source | Utility used to post the Tweet, as an HTML-formatted string. Tweets from the Twitter website have a source value of web. |
| status_url | the URL of the tweet. |
| user_location | The 'user location'. This the location listed in the users profile and is entered manually by the user. If the user has not completed this part of their profile, this will be blank. Note, this is not necessarily where this Tweet has been posted from. |
| entities_str | This provides metadata and additonal contextual information about the Tweet. It is composed of four components:'hashtags' contained in the Tweet, 'user_mentions', which lists other Twitter users mentioned in the Tweet, 'urls' included in the Tweet and 'symbols', which lists any financial symbols (e.g. the dollar sign) used in the Tweet. |
Getting more information
Want to find more information regarding what each data field really means ?
Most of these data is actual field returned by the Twitter API. Hence, you can check out twitter API documentation to check on how Twitter returns each field.Check out the Twitter API for the Tweet object here : https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets