These are my links for September 25th:

• Using Off-the-shelf Software for basic Twitter Analysis « Social Media Collective-”With the increasing popularity of large social software applications like Facebook and Twitter, social scientists and computer scientists have begun developing innovative approaches to dealing with the vast amounts of data produced and collected in such environments. For qualitative researchers, the methods involved can be daunting and unfamiliar. In this report, we outline some basic procedures for working with a large-scale Twitter data set to answer qualitative inquiries. We use Python, MySQL, and the word-cloud generator Wordle to identify patterns in re-tweets, tweet authors, dates and times of tweets, frequency of hashtags, and frequency of word use. Such data can provide valuable augmentation to qualitative inquiry. This paper is aimed at social scientists and humanities scholars with limited experience with big data and a lack of computing resources to do extensive quantitative research. “
• A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities
• How To Cite A Tweet In An Academic Paper – AllTwitter-”Two worlds have collided: the Modern Language Association has revealed the proper way to cite a tweet in an academic paper.”