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Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by economusty »

eminence32 wrote: post #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.…

Because screenshots are slightly harder to fake. If it were only text you could just type in the spreadsheet.

Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by ConcreteGidget »

bra-ket wrote: post #18

why not archive tweets of all his supporters they need to be doxxed, arrested and persecuted as enemies of the people. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people#Soviet_Uni...

Theres a lot I don't know about the Soviet Union but the "Enemies of the People" were the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, not supporters of the party.

I agree that people like Giuliani and even people like Ted Cruz who indirectly bolstered the attack on the capitol building should be prosecuted but going after Trump Supporters themselves is dumb and these comments shouldn't even be made in jest as they are quite dangerous. Most of them are victims of predatory media companies. You sound like the gestapo.

Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by Karupan »

pvorb wrote: post #5
Karupan wrote: post #3

Searchable 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).

It’s on GitHub[1] so I’m sure the author will welcome an issue or even better a PR.

[1] https://github.com/bpb27/tta-elastic

Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by bra-ket »

ConcreteGidget wrote: post #23
bra-ket wrote: post #18

why not archive tweets of all his supporters they need to be doxxed, arrested and persecuted as enemies of the people. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people#Soviet_Uni...

Theres a lot I don't know about the Soviet Union but the "Enemies of the People" were the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, not supporters of the party. I agree that people like Giuliani and even people like Ted Cruz who indirectly bolstered the attack on the capitol building should be prosecuted but going after Trump Supporters themselves is dumb and these comments shouldn't even be made in jest as the…

hmm, have you heard of Gulag and millions of 'enemies of the people' that perished there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

also you didn't notice "/s", I'm a proud Trump voter, one of the 74M.

Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by whycombagator »

AlexisEvelyn wrote: post #19

I personally have been archiving Trump's tweets in a SQL like database. https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/alexis-evelyn/president...

> This page is not currently supported on mobile browsers

> Please visit this page on a desktop computer.

That’s unfortunate...

Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by AlexisEvelyn »

whycombagator wrote: post #26
AlexisEvelyn wrote: post #19

I personally have been archiving Trump's tweets in a SQL like database. https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/alexis-evelyn/president...

> This page is not currently supported on mobile browsers > Please visit this page on a desktop computer. That’s unfortunate...

Yep. It's a work in progress. Currently Dolthub's team is focused on improving the speed and efficiency of the software. Mobile support for the website is on the roadmap.

Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots

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Post by xref »

zinekeller wrote: post #11
jonny_eh wrote: post #2

It'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.

This (and going private in Twitter) is the reason BBC uses screenshots instead of direct embeds (the link is still on the text and/or caption).

Wished a lot more outlets did this because Twitter embeds rarely load for me on mobile. For ex in Apple News or Safari any Twitter embeds are just a spinning loading wheel of death
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