The UCSB Library DREAM Lab supports a number of tools for acquiring and analyzing social media data. Feel free to schedule a consultation if these guides do not answer your questions. You can request a remote or in-person consultation by emailing dreamlab@library.ucsb.edu.
Resources
Social Media Data
There are a number of tools that the UCSB Library supports to examine a variety of platforms. Use this Speciality Software Request to request access to tools.
NCapture
A Chrome browser plug-in that will capture Tweets in a format usable in NVIVO qualitative data analysis software. Download NCapture from the Chrome store.
Text Data Mining Workshops
Social media data analysis can be considered a type of text data mining. The Library has a variety of other sources of texts that can be mined, and API's that can be used to compile your own full-text datasets. There are occasional workshops offered by the DREAM Lab.
There are also online sources of pre-existing datasets:
Extending back to 2010, and updated daily, the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) contains more than 10 billion tweets. Extractions require reimbursement to CGA.