Text mining is a technique for deriving information from textual corpora. Its power and novelty comes from its treating text as a data source. Text mining has been associated with "distant reading".
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'Social Feed Manager is a web application which allows users to create collections of data from social media platforms, including Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, and Sina Weibo. It is open source software and connects to the platforms’ public APIs to harvest data.'