Tag: social media

Written by ZacharyST

THIS Was Twitter, and Now You Can Study it Too

Until recently, Twitter was among the most studied social media platforms in the world. Its accessibility to researchers, coupled with its role in key moments of modern history—from the Arab Spring to the COVID-19 pandemic—made it an indispensable source of data. But in March 2023, the company’s new ownership sharply restricted access to its data, […]

Written by ZacharyST

Assigning the Correct Time to a Tweet

When Twitter provides a tweet, the ‘created_at’ field provides a timestamp for when the tweet was authored.  This timestamp is useful, but it cannot be used right away because it is in Greenwich Mean Time.  Unless the tweet happens to have come from that timezone, its time needs to be adjusted to account for this discrepancy. […]