If any researchers would like to help me QA / test a new endpoint that returns historical metadata for a tweet, please use this thread. Currently historical data is only available for verified users but this will be expanded soon. Try testing it out with a recent tweet id (last
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30 minutes or so). Here is an example of getting historical metadata for a tweet made by LFC.
social.pushshift.io/twitter/meta/?
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Very cool - thanks mate. This might be a great opportunity to test theories that bots and/or troll farms are artificially boosting the likes count on the Aus prime minister’s account - . But he hasn’t tweeted in a day
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Each new data point is created when someone retweets the original tweet (or quotes the tweet). For popular tweets, the time intervals are generally fairly active (every few seconds or so). Once the tweet gets older than a day or two, actively drops off sharply.
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