Why not grab as many 🫡 emoji tweets while the platform is on fire? Seems like a fitting final use of Twitter Academic Research Access. I should probably just make that a Wayback link preemptively, eh? Who knows how long that page will be there at this rate!
Anyway, I was curious if there would be a big spike in the emoji’s usage on a few days during the hardcore timeline.
Lately I’ve been making use of my Twitter Academic Research Access while it still exists by grabbing #onpoli tweets. It took two monthly cycles with the 10,000,000 tweet cap per month. The dataset I have now runs from the very first tweet to use the hashtag on July 14, 2009 through December 31, 2022. Overall, there are 16,458,701 tweets.
Is there a hash tag for Ontario or Alberta provincial politics? #cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli ?
I had a really bad idea last night.
Feed the text of tweets to Donald Trump to DALL·E 2.
What’s it look like if you just do it manually?
I grabbed a random .full_text entry from the dataset, and tried it. It didn’t work.
Mike Pence Expected Applause When He Mentioned Trump in Munich. He Got Silence.
It results in an error: “It looks like this request may not follow our content policy.
Two months ago I wrote about being denied for Twitter Academic Access. Yesterday, inexplicably, I received an email from Twitter stating that I was approved for Twitter Academic Access.
Much like the rejection, the approval is pretty opaque. I didn’t appeal, because you can’t appeal. I’m very grateful to have access, but also extremely confused. Maybe I shouldn’t be bothered by the insectoid Gregor Samsa letting me know that he approves of me, and my trial is over.
I applied for Twitter Academic Access. I was rejected. There is no appeal process, and no insight into the rationale for the denial other than this email. If you reply to the email asking for more insight into the reason for the denial, you get an autoresponse stating, “Auto-Response: This email address does not process replies. You will not receive a response. Should you have questions regarding your Twitter Developer account, please refer to our forums at TwitterCommunity.
Introduction This is my third time collecting tweets for a Canadian Federal Election, and will most likely be last. The changes to the Twitter API including the Academic Research product track, twarc2, and great Documenting the Now Slack have considerbly lowered the barrier to collecting and analyizing Twitter data. I’m proud of the work I’ve done over the last seven years collecting and analyizing tweets. I hope it provided a solid implementation pattern for others to be build on in the future!
Introduction A few years ago Library Archives Canada, Ian Milligan and I collected tweets from the 42nd Canadian Federal Election. Ian and wrote up a case study in Code4Lib Journal that took a look at the collection process, exploration of the dataset, and some context.
This past fall, the 43rd Canadian Federal Election occurred, and we collected tweets again. Instead of writing up the entire process for a journal publication again, I figured I’d revisit some of the methods we used last time to have a look at the dataset, and share some new methods I’ve picked up since then.