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Archive of Twitter Posts Containing the #altc2009 Tag

Twitter was heavily used at the ALTC 2009 Conference, with the #altc2009 event hastag 'trending'. This page provides access to the Twitter posts related to the event.

Twitter Archives

The following resources are now available.

Resources Captured by Twapperkeeper

The following files were captured on Sunday 13 September 2009 by the Twapperkeeper service. Note this service captures the tweets which contain the #altc2009 hashtag.

  • A HTML version of the tweets published with the #altc2009 tag.
  • An RSS version of the tweets published with the #altc2009 tag.
  • A CSV version of the tweets published with the #altc2009 tag.

Resources Captured by WTHashtag

The following files were captured on Sunday 13 September 2009 by the WTHashtag service. Note this service captures the tweets which contain the #altc2009 hashtag.

  • A HTML version of the tweets published with the #altc2009 tag.

Resources Captured by Tweetdoc

The following files were captured on Saturday 12 September 2009 by the Tweetdoc service. Note this service captures the tweets which contain the #altc2009 hashtag.

  • A PDF version of 500 tweets published with the #altc2009 tag (26 pages long).

Resources Captured by The Archivist

The following files were captured on Sunday 13 September 2009 by The Archivist desktop application. Note this tool was used to capture the tweets which contain the #altc2009 hashtag.

Summary

SummaryAs shown in the accompanying image between 7-13 September 2009 the usage of the #altc2009 tag includes:

  • 4,318 tweets
  • 634 contributors
  • 616.9 tweets per day
  • 25.0% come from "The Top 10"
  • 12.6% are retweets
  • 33.7% are mentions
  • 18.1% have multiple hashtags

The top contributors were:

  1. @jamesclay - 164
  2. @sputuk - 129
  3. @emmadw - 116
  4. @haydnblackey - 115
  5. @AJCann - 107
  6. @gillysalmon - 105
  7. @JackieCarter - 96
  8. @adamread - 93
  9. @kateboardman - 79
  10. @djkennedy - 74