Get_timeline - tweets from 2007 until today

[Vici70712466]

Hi, for my PhD resarch I would like to analyze the tweets of certain people from 2007-2019. With get_timeline I only get the 3200 tweets. Which other possibilities do I have, to get also the older tweets? I am using R. Thank you a lot!

[MJo]

If you are using the academictwitteR package, one option that works for you may be to use the user’s name or id as part of a full archive search (get_all_tweets). An example can be found in the function documentation.

[IgorBrigadir]

Yeah to get older tweets, you need Academic Access Twitter Developer Access - twarc

Or failing that, Premium twarc

twarc can also to do the retrieval:

Help for beginners

I would begin here, to get the basics of setting up a command line utility up: Collect Twitter Data with Twarc! · Learn Twarc! That twarc tutorial doesn’t use the academic access endpoint, but it’s good practice to get familiar with using tools to get data. There are more tutorials here: Tutorials - twarc and a livestream recording here: TwitterDev: twarc2 and Academic Search - PeerTubeFR It will be better to use twarc2 for data crawling: to install twarc2, pip3 install --upgrade twarc then…