Archivist – Awesome Twitter Search Archive Tool

Any online marketer should be using Twitter to data mine for what’s being said about their brand, product, service or even their competition.

It’s a given!

Twitter Search is great for finding out what’s being said out there and they’ve now integrated the functionality into the tool to make it easier to search and check out trending topics.

Now however, the guys from Mix Online have come up with the Archivist which is a very cool tool for mining for Tweets, saving them and exporting them to Microsoft Excel for reporting purposes!

They point out that Twitter will not keep these nuggets of insight for ever, so it’s crucial you save them somewhere.

imageAs an example – Microsoft adCenter upgraded over the weekend, so I did a search on that found 328 tweets for that keyword.

There are a couple of “views” – the actual Tweets and avatars like above, or a trend line like below where you can see the spike in activity because of the new release.

imageA simple click of “Export To Excel” and you have a .TXT file you can open in Excel and play around with till your heart’s content!

imageNice huh!?

Check out the documentation and download it here!

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  • Dan Horton Seo

    Thanks for pointing this one out Mel, Dan

    26th May 2009 @ 6:06 pm
  • Jeroen B

    Thanks a lot Mel, just the tool I was looking for !

    10th July 2009 @ 3:30 pm
  • Marieke Hensel

    Sounds like a great tool, unfortunately only available for Windows computers. I am looking for a MAC version. Please post here, if you find it. :-)

    19th October 2009 @ 6:13 pm
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    [...] Archivist.  Though I haven’t tried it yet, apparently this is a great program for searching and downloading recent activity on Twitter.  There is a nice review here. [...]

    10th May 2010 @ 10:47 pm
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    [...] year I wrote about the Mix Online Archivist. A desktop app, it was one of the only quick solutions to download and archive tweets or hashtag [...]

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  • Lucas Shaffer

    very nice! Thanks for the info!

    9th July 2010 @ 3:21 am

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