@twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and

Search Your Tweets

Herbert Mühlburger, Martin Ebner, Behnam Taraghi

Microblogging is a possibility for a specific community to exchange ideas, interests and

information.

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Microblogging is a small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both users and business to share news, post status

updates and carry on conversations

http://www.twitter.com

http://www.jaiku.comhttp://

www.pownce.com(down on December 15, 2008)

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http://www.plurk.comhttp://identi.ca/

http://www.twitter.com

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What the hell is twitter?

- 140 character- from mobile, client or web interface- Followers- Direct messages- @Replies and Retweets- #Hashtags- Open API

http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/twitter-microblogging-and-living-in-the-stream-presentation?type=powerpoint

Twitter at conferences

• Instant communication between conference participants - organizers

• Documentation purpose– Public notepad for interesting information– Collect relavant ideas, quotes, links ...

Documentation purpose

- How to access all your tweets on Twitter?

- Currently on Twitter 3200 tweets accessible

- Store tweets for later use in an archive in order to access interesting information

Question?

How must a web-based application that can also be used offline (without Internet connection) for information retrieval and knowledge discovery based on a micro-content system like Twitter look like?

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Archive and

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Grabeeter Architecture

Discussion

All (more than 3200) Tweets accessible on Grabeeter (if user registers before)

Change of writing style: tweets are written for once own not only for a broader public

Easy deployment using JavaFX technology

Twitter API restriction (limit 3200)

Twitter capacity problem (API over capacity)

Micro-content (tweets) is achievable due to the fact that any tweet can be retrieved at anytime from a local hard-drive

Micro-content is storable in a way that the user can distinguish between different events

Micro-content is searchable along keywords, hash tags, time frames as well as different entities (URLs, @, ... )

Grabeeter allows ...

Future Work and Outlook

Mobile client for Android, iPhone, …

Improvements of search features

Triplification of stored information

Interlinking of triples with Linked Open Data

World of Data Semantic Universe

SOCIAL LEARNING

Computer and Information Services

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http://elearning.tugraz.at

Grabeeter: Grab and Search your Tweetshttp://grabeeter.tugraz.at

Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

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b.taraghi(at)tugraz.at