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ARAB SPRING IN TWITTER

  • The bad news is that tweet id's have to be turned back into full tweets ("rehydrated"), and the current public Twitter(X) API is basically unusable for this purpose. I think what might be the best way forward is to request tweets from the Center for Geographic Analysis's Geotweet Archive, and see if they can help (including maybe some filtering by hashtag): https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/3NCMB6