Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowLooking ForwardsRecent changes to the Twitter API have seriously impacted DocNow’s tools. Here’s how we are moving forward.Jul 19, 2023Jul 19, 2023
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowCounting TweetsToday Twitter released a new API endpoint that allows you to fetch the number of tweets that match a query (like a hashtag) over time.Jun 25, 20213Jun 25, 20213
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowDocumenting EventsFrom its early adopters in 2007 at SXSW to its use today by journalists around the world, Twitter has always been a social media platform…Jun 1, 2021Jun 1, 2021
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowtwarc2twarc has been redesigned from the ground up to work with the new Twitter v2 API and their Academic Research track. Many thanks for the…Apr 7, 20213Apr 7, 20213
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowTrump’s TweetsTLDR: Trump’s tweets are gone from twitter.com but still exist spectrally in various states all over the web. After profiting off of their…Jan 21, 2021Jan 21, 2021
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowDisinformation MetadataIlya Kreymer recently asked a question over in Documenting the Now Slack about Twitter’s API data and whether it includes metadata for…Sep 2, 2020Sep 2, 2020
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowInstagram, Social Action and ArchivesDianne Weinthal is a recent graduate of the UCLA MLIS program, and has been working with a few members of her cohort on criteria to…Aug 7, 2020Aug 7, 2020
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowIntroducing The Catalog v2If you’ve been following our work for the past few years you may have occasionally seen us mention something called the Catalog. The…Apr 16, 2020Apr 16, 2020
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowAppraising COVID-19What might efforts to archive the COVID-19 web teach us about ways to document our appraisal decisions when archiving the web?Apr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
Ed SummersinDocumenting DocNowDesigning for ConsentMany thanks to the Congrés d’Arxivística de Catalunya for the invitation to come and talk about social media archives and the Documenting…May 10, 2019May 10, 2019