How Can I (Re)Publish Tweets?

blog | August 22, 2011 | By John Blue

Truffle Media Labs

RowFeeder and other social media monitoring tools (Radian 6 is another example) offer the ability to capture Tweets using specific search terms. RowFeeder provides the tools to capture, collect, and organize the data from Twitter and Facebook and then use a dashboard to present the information. Additionally, RowFeeder provides an Excel powered spreadsheet with much of the raw data summarized in immediately usable charts or tables. And, RowFeeder makes sharing the data on the web simple by integrating the collected data into a Google Doc spreadsheet. A real example: To monitor #FoodD for eight weeks cost about $140. The cost provided the ability to monitor up to four terms, capture up to 10,500 posts per month, and have Klout scores + geolocation integration on the #FoodD term. See #FoodD Google Doc.
Archivist: I discovered this during the Agvocacy 2.0 conference via Jeff Fowle. Archivist offers summary analysis like top users, top words, and sources in a dashboard. You can use the dashboard to go to a second level to see the details. It does not offer any way to publish outside of Archivist but you can share your archive URL archives with the public (you can also have private archives).
Storify.com: This is way cool! This service not only allows you to organize tweets, it also helps you provide context in the flow of tweets, hence the name Storify. A great example of its use is this Storify post Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief (itself a great story to read). Storify provides a story creation editor that lets you drag in story elements from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, RSS feeds, or web site URLs. You can also add text to help the flow of the story. When done, you publish the story through Storify and share the link with others. This is a great expansion on just copy/paste of Tweets.
Bummer! This service is shutting down :( KeepStream: This is much easier to use for most Tweet publishing needs. Simple, easy, simple. Pull tweets from a selected stream, organize them, publish. Done. It is slow at times and the interface seems to reorder some tweets in edit mode but when published they are fine. Not recommended for long twitter stream publishing (publishing more than 50 (?) tweets) as the interface gets harder to follow.
TwapperKeeper: Web service that will allow you to capture a tweet stream and download the information for use elsewhere. Good for capturing a stream of tweets with a specific hash tag. In March of 2011, Twapper Keeper changed their service to be in compliance with Twitter's Terms of Service, so exports of tweets are no longer allowed. They still offer the ability of capturing tweets. Also, TwapperKeeper has an open source version that allows you to setup the software on your servers and have archives. ~~and allows for export of tweets. This is best solution for just a straight up archive method~~. UPDATE: HootSuite bought TapperKeeper, so maybe this functionality will become more mainstream.
ClipMarks: Web tool that allows you to clip from web pages snippets and to republish. Good for capturing a small (5 to 10) number of selected tweets for publishing in a blog. Integrates with web browser to allow for simple short form publishing.
Amplify: Web tool (from same group that developed ClipMarks) that allows you to clip from a page and "Amplify" its content. Good for capturing selected tweets and publishing on Amplify.com. Useful for limited editorial activity. While a number of tweets can be clipped, for a long stream of tweets it is impractical to use.
Paper.li: This is an advance on just the tweets. Paper.li uses the Twitter stream for a selected hash tag to produce a "paper" analogy of the information in the Twitter stream. This apprach works great as it elevates the information from a stream into a familiar form (news paper) and bring out the images and context of some of the links shared. Not so great for those streams that have a conversation that you want others to follow.
Sadly this service is no longer operational:( What The Hash Tag is a combo service that offers metrics of use of a specific Twitter hash tag and also allows for generating a transcript that you may copy/paste. This is useful for capturing a conversation in a simple format plus see some of the conversation metrics. It is not so great for automatically capturing and storing tweets. Thanks to @kansfarmer for this reference.
Cut and paste: You could use search on Twitter to list out a series of tweets and copy the tweets into a word document. Crude and not well formated, but it will allow you to capture raw info.
Even better: Search on Twitter, clip with Evernote. Evernote will preserve some sense of formating and allows for storing in Evernote Notebooks, which you can share with others (example: Shared Tweets notebook). BTW, Evernote is just a super tool to have!
Google Docs can be used as a coding platform for accessing Twitter. This approach does require a willingness to dive into some configuration and maybe some software code.
Use the Twitter API: This will allow access to real info from Twitter. Hard core tech. Truffle uses this approach to capture and publish certain Agchat and Foodchat conversations. This method can be automated and allows for greater control. Requires some serious software and web technical skills. Not perfect nor elegant, but does work.

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