Node XL is template for Excel. Available in both a paid and free version. It allows you to pull data from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, emails, and more and visualize the resulting network.
Pre-steps: If you don’t have a Twitter account, make one. If usually use a Mac, go find a PC (Node XL only works with the Windows version of Excel).
1. Go to the NodeXL website and download the program. (If you’re using the PC in the Baylor Digital Scholarship Space, you can skip this step, it’s already downloaded)
2. Open up NodeXL, you’ll see this screen or something similar (it varies depending on the version of Excel you’re running)
3. Click on the NodeXL tab, then Import, and then From Twitter Search Network
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4. Fill in what word or phrase you’d like to search. You can use hashtags or keywords. Decided how many tweets you want to pull (the free version limit is 2,000). Decide if you want to pull just the people tweeting about your search term, or those people plus their friends. Click ok.