Why would anyone archive a Twitter feed as images? Like really? The whole thing should just be in a text file.
Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
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#32> 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.
You’re just rephrasing the original question. Ok so why would someone design a tool that takes screenshots if tiny blurbs of text? It truly boggles the mind.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pikaso is a tool for taking screenshots of tweets and this was probably done as a showcase of the tool.
You’re just rephrasing the original question. Ok so why would someone design a tool that takes screenshots if tiny blurbs of text? It truly boggles the mind.
What speaks against having such a tool? I'm thinking of news sites that want to give their readers the impression of the original tweet without embedding the remote content. This would've avoided the current situation where many articles are useless because the tweets they discuss are no longwr available.
Okay, maybe a bit of CSS could do the same. But this requires someone to change the CSS. Adding an image can be done by any journalist and is mostly risk-free. You cannot break the looks of other articles this way.
This, of course, is only to argue why such a tool exists.
Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re just rephrasing the original question. Ok so why would someone design a tool that takes screenshots if tiny blurbs of text? It truly boggles the mind.
What speaks against having such a tool? I'm thinking of news sites that want to give their readers the impression of the original tweet without embedding the remote content. This would've avoided the current situation where many articles are useless because the tweets they discuss are no longwr available. Okay, maybe a bit of CSS could do the same. But this requires someone to change the CSS. Adding an image can be d…
I think this comes down to some brilliant twitter marketing. They pushed the idea that to cover tweets you need to convey the look of tweets, which at a minimum pushes their brand, but also lets them embed trackers all over the web.
For any other medium an article can just quote the content.
Re: Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
#35It'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).
The problem there is that it's easy to fake a tweet via an image. Not a big problem for the BBC since they're fairly trustworthy.