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. […]
I’ve been writing some scripts to work with Twitter’s REST API. Naturally, I went to their developer documentation to refresh myself on their rate limits. As of today, the link they provide to their rate limit chart is broken. Fortunately, I clipped this page to Evernote a long time ago. I was therefore able to […]
The chart below replicates the data presented in my earlier post about Twitter but ranked by accounts per million inhabitants. Antarctica, of course, does not really have the greatest number of accounts per capita. In this sample, however, Twitter identified 4 tweets from there, and Antarctica has a population of 0, as do the 2nd […]
How many followers does the average Twitter user have? How many accounts does the average Twitter account follow? How many times has the average account tweeted? What about the median? These questions seem simple, but it is not easy to find answers to them. Twitter only discloses how many monthly active users exist, and other […]
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