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Four Fucking Years of Donald Trump

Nearly four years ago I decided to start collecting tweets to Donald Trump out of morbid curiosity. If I was a real archivist, I would have planned this out a little bit better, and started collecting on election night in 2016, or inaguration day 2017. I didn’t. Using twarc, I started collecting with the Filter (Streaming) API on May 7, 2017. That process failed, and I pivoted to using the Search API.

17,525,913 images tweeted at Donald Trump

Juxta A couple years ago I wrote about a method for creating a collage out of 1.2M images collected from the 2015 Canadian Federal Election Twitter dataset. That method was very resource intensive in terms of the amount of temporary disk storage required to create the collage. As the number of images in a given collage increased, the amount of temporary disk space scaled exponentially; 3.5T for 1.2M #exln42 images, and ~90T for 6.