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Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image search. You can do that by uploading an image or searching by URL. You can also simply drag and drop your images to start your search.
TinEye constantly crawls the web and adds images to its index. Today, the TinEye index is over 58.4 billion images.

Go to Google Images. On your computer, find the file with the image you want to search with. Click the image. Hold down the mouse, drag the image, and then drop it into the search box.

Research the origin and spread of popular memes back to 2009.

It’s what most people say they want. So how do we know how happy people are? You can’t improve or understand what you can’t measure. In a blow to happiness, we’re very good at measuring economic indices and this means we tend to focus on them. With our flagship instrument at hedonometer.org we’ve created an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in near real time. We also link to applications of the instrument to literature, movies, and news.

Our Hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and we’re measuring how people present themselves to the outside world.

At the Computational Story Lab, since 2008 we have collected a random 10% of all public messages using Twitter’s Decahose API. Overall, our collection comprises roughly 150 billion messages requiring 100TB of storage. Inspired by the Google n-grams project which smashes books into bits, we’ve meticulously parsed these tweets into daily frequencies of words, 2-word phrases, and three word expressions. Scientists call these different types “n-grams” for n = 1, 2, 3.

@Netflix since:yyyy-mm-dd (tweets since a certain day)
@tweetbinder until:yyyy-mm-dd (tweets until a certain day)
“analytical tool” since:yyyy-mm-dd until:yyyy-mm-dd (tweets between certain dates)

How to search someone's tweets:

If you want to see the tweets where Katy Perry adds #CozyLittleChristmas, we write:

from:katyperry #CozyLittleChristmas

You can see how many verified accounts tweeted about one topic or using a hashtag. For example, let’s see how to look for tweets about #SocialMedia sent by verified accounts:

filter:verified #SocialMedia

Filtering Twitter data by type of tweet
If you want to see only pictures or only tweets with links, use these commands:

#SocialMedia RT (only RTs)
#Marketing filter:links (Tweets containing link)
#Hashtag PIC (Tweets containing image)
#Analytics -filter:links -PIC (all Tweets less those containing links and images)

This command is pretty useful when you need to see the most popular tweets of one topic. For example, if you want to see the most popular tweets about #SocialMedia you write one of these:

#SocialMedia min_retweets:1000
#SocialMedia min_faves:1000

Tweet Binder is a twitter hashtag analytics tool. It allows you to generate reports and track hashtags, mentions, keywords and profiles on Twitter.

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The DocNow Catalog is a collectively curated listing of Twitter datasets. Public datasets are shared as Tweet IDs, which can be hydrated back into full datasets using our Hydrator desktop application.

Twitter datasets for research and archiving.

We're dedicated to providing an online platform for free, open data and these Twitter datasets are no exception. Looking for data sets from and about Twitter? Explore these data sets, ready for your analysis.

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