Category: twitter
Everything filed under twitter.
Parler Whack-a-Mole
(this is an unrolled Twitter thread converted to the blog since one never knows how long content will be preserved anywhere…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
R⁶ — Capture Tweets with tweet_shot()
that spawned from Maëlle's recent look-back post turned into a quick function for capturing an image of a Tweet/thread using webshot , rtweet , magick and glue…
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…
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…
A Call to Tweets (& Blog Posts)!
Way back in July of 2009, the first version of the twitteR package was published by Geoff Jentry in CRAN. Since then it has seen 28 updates, finally breaking the 0.x.y barrier into 1.x.y territory in March of 2013 and receiving it's last…
Tweet From Mountain Lion Notification Center
If this feature was in Mountain Lion Developer Previews prior to revision 4, I didn't notice it, but you can now tweet directly from the Notification Center…