Measuring Social Media Impact:
Google Analytics and Twitter
Martin Hawksey
@mhawksey
#OxEngage
http://www.slideshare.net/mhawksey/
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Getting to know you…
#OxEngage
@mhawksey
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Outcomes
◊ Able to perform basic Twitter analysis
techniques;
◊ understanding of the limitations and
opportunities of data from Twitter;
◊ *Inspire* you to do more
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Why
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Courtesy Marc Smith
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Actionable Insight
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Image: CC-BY-NC-ND Shaun Osborne
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ALT Comunity
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Courtesy Marc Smith
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Content marketing
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Twitter Analytics
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Twitter Dashboard
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Twitter Analytics
Dashboard for
MS Excel
◊ Originally
developed by Elena
Villaespesa
◊ Extended by
Ernesto Priego
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Image: CC-BY-NC-SA Elena Villaespesa
http://artsmetrics.com/en/dashboard-for-twitter-analytics/
Twitter Analytics
Dashboard for
Google Sheets
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Twitter Dashboard Limits
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Twitter Search
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Lets interface … {API}
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Data….
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<html>
<rss>
<XML>
{JSON}
API
.csv
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Twitter Search API – Single
tweet
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Twitter Search API Limits
◊ Data from last ~7 days
◊ Last 18,000 tweets for search term
◊ Developer ‘Rules of the Road’ on
storage
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Twitter Archiving Google Sheet
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Google Sheet benefits
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[my link]
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One last trick … TAGSExplorer
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https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/social-media-analytics
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Links
Worksheet - go.alt.ac.uk/OxEngageTw
Slides - go.alt.ac.uk/OxEngageTwSlides
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Thank you!
@mhawksey+MartinHawksey
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Measuring Social Media Impact: Google Analytics and Twitter