Download your Tweet Activity report using R
My blog is now on Medium ! Recently I wanted to analyze my tweets' performance. As you may know, Twitter Analytics provides detailed data of a twitter account's tweets: number of impressions, engagement rate, number of retweets, link clicks, etc. What I didn't know was that the website restricts the maximum possible date range you can see (and download) to a 91-day window, but I wanted to analyze more data. Instead of downloading reports 91 days at a time, I wrote an R script which does the dirty work. It downloads the tweet activity data from Twitter Analytics for any given period. If the selected date range is longer than 91 days, the download is split into several downloads. Installation To install the script you will need the devtools package and the RSelenium package : install.packages("devtools") library(devtools) install_github("ropensci/RSelenium") Then you can install the script directly from GitHub by running: ...