Posts tagged ‘twitter’
Completing my Twitter archive
January 17th, 2013 at 9:44 pm by Dr. Drang
My complete Twitter archive became available today (yes, I’ve been checking every day), and I just got done processing it to fit in with my existing archive.1 Here’s what I did. After downloading and unzipping the archive, I had a new tweets directory in my Downloads folder. The tweets themselves are a few levels deep…
WordPress 3.5 and the deathly auto-embeds
December 28th, 2012 at 10:18 pm by Dr. Drang
A few days ago I was searching my site for something and landed on this page about archiving tweets with IFTTT. It didn’t have what I was looking for, but as I was looking through it, I saw that the extract of my archive was formatted wrong. Instead of looking like this, it looked like…
Twitter archiving utility on GitHub
September 22nd, 2012 at 8:35 pm by Dr. Drang
Like many of you, I got the email from IFTTT saying that it was shutting down its Twitter triggers next week in response to Twitter’s policy changes. Because that change will kill this IFTTT recipe for archiving tweets, there’s been some interest in my Twitter archiving utility, a Python script that does what Hugo’s recipe…
Roll with the changes
August 17th, 2012 at 11:19 pm by Dr. Drang
Let’s see, where was I? Oh, yes: My feeling is that the LinkedIn and Instagram examples are special cases that have more to do with tribal warfare among social media companies than with a true crackdown on third-party clients. 20-25% of tweets come from third-party clients… I think that’s a big enough number to make…
App dot not
August 14th, 2012 at 7:16 am by Dr. Drang
With a big last-minute push from all the internet celebrities who signed up for it early, the perplexing app.net surged past its $500k Kickstarter-like goal this weekend and is going to be a thing. What kind of thing and why a bunch of smart people want that thing is still a mystery to me. The…
A few tweet archive utilities
August 8th, 2012 at 5:00 pm by Dr. Drang
You’re probably sick of my posts about making a local tweet archive. So this one’s about querying that archive and finding the tweets that are in it. You can, of course, open your archive file up in a text editor and use its search tools, but often it’s more convenient to do these things from…
Archiving tweets without IFTTT
July 22nd, 2012 at 8:38 pm by Dr. Drang
Here’s a final bit of follow-up on the flurry of posts about Twitter and archiving tweets that I wrote early in the month. The way I left it, I was using the IFTTT web service to append new tweets to a text file in my Dropbox folder. Since I have no control over IFTTT, my…
Good embedded tweets
July 12th, 2012 at 11:10 pm by Dr. Drang
This morning I made a little funny on Twitter: Another thing that’s so 2006: Using screenshots instead of live embedded tweets. buzzfeed.com/mjs538/tweets-… — Dr. Drang (@drdrang) Thu Jul 12 2012 9:11 AM CDT The linked article at BuzzFeed, 30 Tweets That Are So 2006, is a hipper-than-thou post—broken into two parts, the better to serve you…
Time zones in blackbirdpy
July 7th, 2012 at 9:12 pm by Dr. Drang
After figuring out how to get time zones straightened out in my Twitter archiving script, it seemed like a good idea to use that knowledge to improve my embedded tweets before I forget how. To embed tweets in my blog posts, I use my own variant on Jeff Miller’s blackbirdpy. Jeff’s Python script was itself…
Tweets, timestamps, time zones, and ThinkUp
July 6th, 2012 at 12:52 am by Dr. Drang
If I were a little less anally retentive, it wouldn’t have bothered me that the timestamps in the tweet archive I generated from ThinkUp were off. But I am and it did. Some of the timestamps were right, some were off by one hour, some by five hours, and some by six hours. It drove…
