SoftwareApplication
identifier: 10.5281/zenodo.1045248
name: Twiqs
description: Software behind the web server twiqs.nl, which has provided free access to statistics about Dutch tweets since 2010
description: * search facility for tweets for users interested in tweet statistics * implements webserver and communication with Hadoop server with tweets * access to tweet statistics (more detailed than Twitter) * dozens of research papers and at least 1 PhD thesis used this service Many researchers want to analyse tweets but find it to collect large numbers of messages and analyze these. The website twiqs.nl was created to support research based on Dutch tweets. The websites offers a search function that can be applied to tweets dating back to 2010. Twitter does not allow the text of tweets to be offered as a download. Instead the website offers summaries of the tweets in graphs, on maps, word clouds and pie diagrams. Since it creation in 2012, the website has been used by many researchers and common people to test ideas about word usage in Dutch tweets. This software package contains the software used by the website twiqs.nl.
code repository: https://github.com/twinl/website
author: 0000-0002-8431-081X
keywords: Visualization
keywords: Text analysis & natural language processing
keywords: Big data
programming language: HTML
programming language: Java
programming language: JavaScript
programming language: Makefile
programming language: Perl
programming language: Shell
license:
  creative work: creativeWork
    name: Apache-2.0
reference publication: ScholarlyArticle
  name: Dealing with big data: The case of Twitter
  url: https://ifarm.nl/erikt/papers/clin2013.pdf

0000-0002-8431-081X
type: Person
given name: Erik
family name: Tjong Kim Sang
name: Erik Tjong Kim Sang
affiliation: Organization
  name: Netherlands eScience Center