Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011
Law Practice Management Tip
Hashtag, you’re it: How to filter and archive Twitter posts by the #
As we have previously written, hashtagged
conversations on Twitter have become an important adjunct to legal
conferences, both as a method for driving participation and for
serving as another valuable stream of conference-related content.
In general, hashtags, whether formally or informally derived,
aggregate content by subject matter coding. But, as with much
of what passes through Twitter, even the most vibrant hashtag
related conversations disappear, for all practical purposes, over
the long-term.
There are available, however, services, beyond Twitter's
search, that allow you to filter for and to archive hashtagged
conversations in which you have an interest. TwapperKeeper is the best of the bunch, by a
fair margin. It returns the most and the best results of any of the
programs that we tested. TwapperKeeper also provides further
information (beyond the filtered listing of tweets) related to the
hashtag, including that respecting its origin (e.g.--the handle of
the hashtag creator and the date of creation).
The
Archivist has an aesthetically pleasing website, and some
analytics features. The Archivist, once you've made a search, will
also monitor for future results appearing with the attached
hashtag. SearchHash allows you to export captured
hashtagged tweets to Excel, for archive, and search. However, both
the Archivist and SearchHash achieved extremely poor results in
practice, locating approximately 2 percent of the hashtagged tweets
that TwapperKeeper was able to extract.
Tip courtesy of Jared Correia and Rachel Willcox,
Law Office
Management Assistance Program.
Published August 11, 2011
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