Sean Volke, Online Resources Specialist Librarian, on local collecting @snailx presented as part of Digital collecting for NSW public library staff, 27 May 2019
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