These are my randomly layed takeaways from TwitterDev talk that was held to showcase how twitter was used in different research scenarios.

  • Twitter API has now an easy way to get the whole conversation thread by querying using a conversation_id field.
  • One can access the whole Twitter history using Twitter’s research accounts (I found out that I have previously applied for one and my application got rejected 😢).
  • There is another python package called twarc - might not be that new but it’s the first time that I have heard of it- that interacts with Twitter’s API and currently supports V2 of the API. tweepy is on the other hand currently working on supporting V2.