Twitter Monitoring for Researchers
Conduct systematic social media research without manual data collection. Twigest tracks keywords, accounts, and topics continuously — and delivers AI-synthesized summaries you can actually use.
Quick Facts
- ✓Export raw tweet data and AI classifications as JSON or CSV
- ✓Boolean operators plus regex support on the Business plan
- ✓Multi-language analysis across 40+ languages
- ✓Free tier for individual researchers with 3 saved queries
- ✓Academic discount available on Pro and above (contact us)
Research-grade monitoring
Systematic Keyword Tracking
Define precise boolean queries to capture the exact subset of Twitter discourse relevant to your research topic — no false positives.
Longitudinal Volume Trends
Track how conversation volume around a topic changes over time — ideal for studying social phenomena, public health communication, or political discourse.
AI Thematic Summaries
Instead of manually coding thousands of tweets, get AI-generated thematic summaries that identify dominant narratives, sentiments, and talking points.
Structured Digest Format
Digests are structured and consistent, making them easy to reference, archive, and incorporate into your literature review or qualitative analysis workflow.
How it works
Define Your Research Query
Use boolean operators to craft precise keyword queries that capture your topic of interest with minimal noise.
Continuous Data Collection
Twigest monitors Twitter continuously, collecting matching content and applying AI to surface patterns, themes, and sentiment shifts.
Receive Structured Summaries
Get regular AI-written digests that synthesize discourse trends — delivered to email or Slack, archived for your records.
“I'm studying public health discourse on social media. Twigest lets me define precise keyword queries and get weekly AI summaries of how the conversation is evolving — it's saved me weeks of manual analysis.”
— PhD Researcher, Communications Department
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I export raw data?+
Yes. Business and Agency plan subscribers can export the raw tweet data underlying each digest period as JSON or CSV. The export includes tweet text, timestamp, engagement metrics, and the AI-assigned sentiment and topic classifications. This is useful for quantitative analysis, archiving, or feeding data into your own analytical tools.
Is academic pricing available?+
Yes. Twigest offers an academic discount on Pro and higher plans for verified researchers and students at accredited institutions. Contact our team with your institutional email address and a brief description of your research project to apply. The discount is applied manually after verification.
Are boolean operators supported?+
Yes. The query engine supports AND, OR, NOT operators, parenthetical grouping, and quoted exact-match phrases. Business plan subscribers also have access to regex pattern matching for advanced use cases such as capturing morphological variants or structured data patterns within tweet text.
Does it cover historical tweets?+
Twigest is a forward-looking monitoring tool. Data collection begins from the moment a keyword query is saved — there is no access to historical Twitter data prior to that date. For longitudinal research, we recommend starting your monitoring as early as possible in the study period to build up a sufficient dataset over time.
Turn Twitter data into research insights
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