GW Libraries receives major grant to aggregate tweets

October 1, 2014July 29, 2021

Social Feed Manager - GW Libraries Grant News — [image via GW Today, October 1, 2014]

Great news! GW Libraries has just received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to use a social feed manager to aggregate and analyze Twitter data. An application developed by Daniel Chudnov, Director of Scholarly Technology at Gelman Library, will aid GW librarians and researchers to collect and store millions of tweets per day.

Read more about this grant and Social Feed Manager at this article that just appeared at GW Today.

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