Some European-US initiatives are setting the standard in data analysis tools for Twitter campaigns. The Digital Methods Initiative is one of them, always sharing Open Source tools for this kind of large scale data analysis for Twitter campaigns.

The tool used by Proyelink was DMI-TCAT, a tool that allowed to capture the Tweets that used certain hashtags in such a way that during a determined period of time a database can be created for a later analysis. 

The preconditions to be taken into consideration for the installation of the tool are:

• To have a medium technical context of programming.
• To have the Twitter API enabled for information capture.
• To have a server available 24 hours a day  

The download and installation of the platform can be found on Github and is maintained by the student community Digital Methods Initiatives Summer 2022. 

Proyelink put the tool on test during the development of a political campaign at  Ecuador in the 2020 presidential campaign with important results that helped to elucidate how Twitter communities behave during a political campaign.