PowerPivot to Analyze Tweets

Thought this was kind of interesting... Microsoft's solution for analyzing tweets.

It's a shame that they can only pull in a few days though... I'd prefer to see a few months of data personally, but I guess that's a Twitter limitation.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/archive/...weets-the-new-analytics-tool-for-twitter.aspx

Hi Ken,

Yes, this is tool is very interesting and cool and I also think, the limitation may
be from Twitter

However, users who are not using an English (US) date and system format on
their Windows will encounter a problem when updating the tables due to a
PowerPivot Bug.

So, these users (like me) may firstly change the system date and time format
to English (US) before starting Excel and running Twitter Analyzer data Updates.

Best regards

Ouch. That's not good!

I saw the following comment on Twitter this morning regarding this one: "Tried out MS' Analytics for twitter. Cool idea, but takes way too many steps to refresh with new search results. #powerpivot"

While not specifically an issue with this add-in, I couldn't agree more. We need a VBA interface to kick off automatic refresh.

Hi Ken...

We need a VBA interface to kick off automatic refresh.

Click to expand...

Yes, full agree, can't wait for it

Best regards