twarc

Preliminary look at 3,893,553 JeSuisCharlie tweets

Background Last Friday (January 9, 2015) I started capturing #JeSuisAhmed, #JeSuisCharlie, #JeSuisJuif, and #CharlieHebdo with Ed Summers’ twarc. I have about 12 million tweets at the time of writing this, and plan on writing up something a little bit more in-depth in the coming weeks. But for now, some preliminary analysis of #JeSuisCharlie, and if you haven’t seen these two posts (”A Ferguson Twitter Archive”, “On Forgetting and hydration”) by Ed Summers, please do check them out.

More Rob Ford tweets on a map

Another example of how global the Rob Ford scandal has become via harvested tweets with geographic coordinates. This example is a harvest of #rofo, #robford, #topoli, and #ShirtlessHorde. The harvest took place on July 6, 2014, and should cover the discussion around the time of Rob Ford's return on June 30, 2014 to July 6, 2014. The tweets with available geo-information represents less than 10% of all tweets harvested.

panamapapers images April 4-29, 2016

Dataset is available here. Looking at the #panamapapers capture I’ve been doing we have, 1,424,682 embedded image urls from 3,569,960 tweets. I’m downloading the 1,424,682 images now, and hope to do something similar to what I did with the #elxn42 images. While we’re waiting for the images to download, here are the 10 most tweeted embedded image urls: Tweets Image 1. 10243 2.