Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
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Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
#2It's unfortunate that all those permalinks to his old tweets are dead. A lot of other tweets, blog posts, and news articles are now broken.
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#3Searchable text archive with CSV/JSON export here - https://www.thetrumparchive.com
No affiliation to that site, just found it useful.
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#4> Today, we are releasing the resulting files to the public. This archive contains screenshots of 43,475 Donald Trump tweets from May 2009 to May 2020.
Does anyone have any insight as to why the tweets are archived as screenshots, as opposed to text?
> (Direct download, 2.6 GB)
Assuming each tweet plus its associated metadata is roughly ~500 bytes, then the 43k tweets in text form would be approximately 22 megabytes. The images are 2.6 gigabytes.
Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
#5Searchable text archive with CSV/JSON export here - https://www.thetrumparchive.com No affiliation to that site, just found it useful.
I only wish that the site had permalinks (not to Twitter, but to the archived links themselves).
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#6It's unfortunate that all those permalinks to his old tweets are dead. A lot of other tweets, blog posts, and news articles are now broken.
It doesn't universally solve the problem, but a given platform or website might be able to make changes to rewrite links to include the archive.org prefix to make them functional again.
Still requires work, but perhaps a tiny step in making them somewhat accessible again.
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#7> Today, we are releasing the resulting files to the public. This archive contains screenshots of 43,475 Donald Trump tweets from May 2009 to May 2020. Does anyone have any insight as to why the tweets are archived as screenshots, as opposed to text? > (Direct download, 2.6 GB) Assuming each tweet plus its associated metadata is roughly ~500 bytes, then the 43k tweets in text form would be approximately 22 megabytes.…
Screenshots are for some reason to be better proof than just text? I think it's a layman's fallacy.
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#8It's unfortunate that all those permalinks to his old tweets are dead. A lot of other tweets, blog posts, and news articles are now broken.
You could probably fix that with a small userscript, if so inclined.
Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
#9> Today, we are releasing the resulting files to the public. This archive contains screenshots of 43,475 Donald Trump tweets from May 2009 to May 2020. Does anyone have any insight as to why the tweets are archived as screenshots, as opposed to text? > (Direct download, 2.6 GB) Assuming each tweet plus its associated metadata is roughly ~500 bytes, then the 43k tweets in text form would be approximately 22 megabytes.…
looks like pikaso is a tool used for screenshotting tweets for usage on sites / other marketing. and this is a demo / marketing for their tool
Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
#10> Today, we are releasing the resulting files to the public. This archive contains screenshots of 43,475 Donald Trump tweets from May 2009 to May 2020. Does anyone have any insight as to why the tweets are archived as screenshots, as opposed to text? > (Direct download, 2.6 GB) Assuming each tweet plus its associated metadata is roughly ~500 bytes, then the 43k tweets in text form would be approximately 22 megabytes.…
Pikaso is a tool for taking screenshots of tweets and this was probably done as a showcase of the tool.