Sean Volke, Online Resources Specialist Librarian, on local collecting @snailx presented as part of Digital collecting for NSW public library staff, 27 May 2019
Finance strategies for adaptation. Presentation for CANCC
Capturing tweets with twarc
1. Capturing tweets with twarc
Sean Volke
Online Resources Specialist Librarian
State Library of NSW
@snailx
27 May 2019
2. Capturing tweets with twarc
• Vizie – ongoing, large captures
– Developed by Data61/CSIRO
• Twarc – retrospective captures
– Developed by Documenting the Now
4. Capturing tweets with twarc
The Rise of Eggboy
• Saturday 16th March 2019 – teenager smashed an egg
on the head of Federal Senator Fraser Anning
• Created headlines across the world including ABC, SMH,
Junkee, Washington Post, Daily Mail, and others
• Happened on a weekend so wasn’t added to Vizie until
Monday
• Twarc uses the Twitter API to capture tweets from the
previous week