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Experimenting with the Twitter API this afternoon for a personal project and I'm super fascinated by the contextual data you can pull off the v2 API...
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Journalist is a contextual domain of which...apparently... the prototypical entity is andersoncooper
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Some tweets get scraped for context and some don't. And I'm not sure why? chiquiesteban's tweet looking for a digital cartographer doesn't have
context_annotations
, but jeremybowers Retweet of that tweet gets 4 entity's attached to it. -
I interact with many journalists on my timeline... but fascinating to see which names are officially part of Twitter's dataset of entities with type Journalist, including emilybell, jayrosen_nyu, MikeIsaac, sarafischer who seems to be mislabeled as SarahD for some reason.
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For the curious, Twitter's API setup is easy & they have a Postman collection to get you set up quick: developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/lookup/quick-start I looked up User Lookup > User by Username & then Timelines > User Tweet timeline by ID If the user is an entity, it will show on their tweets.