(this is an unrolled Twitter thread converted to the blog since one never knows how long content will be preserved anywhere anymore) It looks like @StackPath (NetCDN[.]com redirects to them) is enabling insurrection-mongers. They’re fronting news[.]parler[.]com . It seems they (Parler) have a second domain dicecrm[.]com with the actual content, too. dicecrm[.]com is hosted in… Continue reading
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Attach Your R Code To Charts You Tweet For Reproducible R Tweets!
I caught this tweet by Terence Eden about using Twitter image alt-text to “PGP sign” tweet and my mind immediately went to “how can I abuse this for covert communications, malicious command-and-control, and embedding R code in tweets?”. When you paste or upload an image to tweet (web interface, at least) you have an opportunity… Continue reading
Twitter “Account Analysis” in R
This past week @propublica linked to a really spiffy resource for getting an overview of a Twitter user’s profile and activity called accountanalysis. It has a beautiful interface that works as well on mobile as it does in a real browser. It also is fully interactive and supports cross-filtering (zoom in on the timeline and… Continue reading
New Apache Drill UDF for Processing Twitter Tweet Text
There are many ways to gather Twitter data for analysis and many R and Python (et al) libraries make full use of the Twitter API when building a corpus to extract useful metadata for each tweet along with the text of each tweet. However, many corpus archives are minimal and only retain a small portion… Continue reading
Can’t Stop at 21: Twitter Recipe #22 — Tying Up Loose Threads
NOTE: The likelihood of this recipe being added to the recent practice bookdown book is slim, but I’ll try to keep the same format for the blog post. Problem You want to collect all the tweets in a Twitter tweet thread Solution Use a few key functions in rtweet to piece the thread elements back… Continue reading
R⁶ — Capture Tweets with tweet_shot()
(You can find all R⁶ posts here) UPDATE 2018-01-01 — this has been added to rtweet (GH version). A Twitter discussion: I'm going to keep my eyes out for this one! Would love to have an easy way to embed tweets in Rmd talks! — Jeff Hollister (@jhollist) December 30, 2017 that spawned from Maëlle’s… Continue reading
Twitter Outer Limits : Seeing How Far Have Folks Fallen Down The Slippery Slope to “280” with rtweet
By now, virtually every major media outlet has covered the “280 Apocalypse”™. For those still not “in the know”, Twitter recently moved the tweet character cap to 280 after a “successful” beta test (some of us have different ideas of what “success” looks like). I had been on a hiatus from the platform for a… Continue reading
gg_tweet’ing Power Outages
As many folks know, I live in semi-rural Maine and we were hit pretty hard with a wind+rain storm Sunday to Monday. The hrbrmstr compound had no power (besides a generator) and no stable/high-bandwidth internet (Verizon LTE was heavily congested) since 0500 Monday and still does not as I write this post. I’ve played with… Continue reading