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Asked: 2026-06-09T11:01:43+00:00

Does anyone know of a method to collect Twitter text messages using Python (or

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Does anyone know of a method to collect Twitter text messages using Python (or any language)? I am working on a project and it requires a corpus made up of text messages. I thought since people use Twitter through text messages, it would be as good as collecting text messages from a phone.

Any ideas?

BTW, I have used the Tweepy library to collect the public stream of Twitter messages. However, these cannot be distinguished between text messages or just a message written from a computer as far as I know.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In the response, look for the “source” element.

    It will normally say something like 

    "source" : "<a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">Some Twitter App</a>",

    If a tweet has been sent in via SMS / Text Message, it will say

    "source" : "<a href="http://twitter.com/devices" rel="nofollow">txt</a>",

    Sadly, the Twitter search engine will not let you search by source, so you may have to capture a wide range of tweets in order to get enough text messages.

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