Using Twitter as a data source

Wasim Ahmed, a PhD student here in the University of Sheffield Information School, published a post on the LSE Impact Blog last week on Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of current social media research tools. He lists and links some key tools, and also notes that, whilst some of the tools can be used to analyse other social media, on the whole social media other than Twitter have not been well served.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/10/social-media-research-tools-overview/
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