archiving tweets
If you are an active Twitter user you may have heard that you can now download your complete archive of tweets. The functionality is still being rolled out across the millions of accounts, so donât be surprised if you donât see the function yet in your settings.
The WSJ piece kind of joked about the importance of this move on Twitterâs part, which is a bit unfortunate, since itâs a pretty important issue. Yes you can use a 3rd party apps for downloading your Twitter data, but it says a lot when a company takes âarchivingâ seriously enough to offer it as a service to its users.
If you work in the digital preservation space itâs kind of fun to take a look at the way that Twitter makes these personal archives available. Luckily (if you donât have the archive download button yet like me) Dave Winer has started collecting some archives, and making them publicly available for browsing and download off of S3. For example we can look at Sarah Bourneâs (who tipped me off to Daveâs workâthanks Sarah!). After youâve downloaded the ZIP file you get a directory that looks like:
sarahebourne/ |-- css | `-- application.min.css |-- data | |-- csv | | |-- 2008_08.csv | | |-- 2008_09.csv | | |-- 2008_10.csv | | |-- 2008_11.csv | | |-- 2008_12.csv | | |-- 2009_01.csv | | |-- 2009_02.csv | | |-- 2009_03.csv | | |-- 2009_04.csv | | |-- 2009_05.csv | | |-- 2009_06.csv | | |-- 2009_07.csv | | |-- 2009_08.csv | | |-- 2009_09.csv | | |-- 2009_10.csv | | |-- 2009_11.csv | | |-- 2009_12.csv | | |-- 2010_01.csv | | |-- 2010_02.csv | | |-- 2010_03.csv | | |-- 2010_04.csv | | |-- 2010_05.csv | | |-- 2010_06.csv | | |-- 2010_07.csv | | |-- 2010_08.csv | | |-- 2010_09.csv | | |-- 2010_10.csv | | |-- 2010_11.csv | | |-- 2010_12.csv | | |-- 2011_01.csv | | |-- 2011_02.csv | | |-- 2011_03.csv | | |-- 2011_04.csv | | |-- 2011_05.csv | | |-- 2011_06.csv | | |-- 2011_07.csv | | |-- 2011_08.csv | | |-- 2011_09.csv | | |-- 2011_10.csv | | |-- 2011_11.csv | | |-- 2011_12.csv | | |-- 2012_01.csv | | |-- 2012_02.csv | | |-- 2012_03.csv | | |-- 2012_04.csv | | |-- 2012_05.csv | | |-- 2012_06.csv | | |-- 2012_07.csv | | |-- 2012_08.csv | | |-- 2012_09.csv | | |-- 2012_10.csv | | |-- 2012_11.csv | | `-- 2012_12.csv | `-- js | |-- payload_details.js | |-- tweet_index.js | |-- tweets | | |-- 2008_08.js | | |-- 2008_09.js | | |-- 2008_10.js | | |-- 2008_11.js | | |-- 2008_12.js | | |-- 2009_01.js | | |-- 2009_02.js | | |-- 2009_03.js | | |-- 2009_04.js | | |-- 2009_05.js | | |-- 2009_06.js | | |-- 2009_07.js | | |-- 2009_08.js | | |-- 2009_09.js | | |-- 2009_10.js | | |-- 2009_11.js | | |-- 2009_12.js | | |-- 2010_01.js | | |-- 2010_02.js | | |-- 2010_03.js | | |-- 2010_04.js | | |-- 2010_05.js | | |-- 2010_06.js | | |-- 2010_07.js | | |-- 2010_08.js | | |-- 2010_09.js | | |-- 2010_10.js | | |-- 2010_11.js | | |-- 2010_12.js | | |-- 2011_01.js | | |-- 2011_02.js | | |-- 2011_03.js | | |-- 2011_04.js | | |-- 2011_05.js | | |-- 2011_06.js | | |-- 2011_07.js | | |-- 2011_08.js | | |-- 2011_09.js | | |-- 2011_10.js | | |-- 2011_11.js | | |-- 2011_12.js | | |-- 2012_01.js | | |-- 2012_02.js | | |-- 2012_03.js | | |-- 2012_04.js | | |-- 2012_05.js | | |-- 2012_06.js | | |-- 2012_07.js | | |-- 2012_08.js | | |-- 2012_09.js | | |-- 2012_10.js | | |-- 2012_11.js | | `-- 2012_12.js | `-- user_details.js |-- img | |-- bg.png | `-- sprite.png |-- index.html |-- js | `-- application.min.js |-- lib | |-- bootstrap | | |-- bootstrap-dropdown.js | | |-- bootstrap.min.css | | |-- bootstrap-modal.js | | |-- bootstrap-tooltip.js | | |-- bootstrap-transition.js | | |-- glyphicons-halflings.png | | `-- glyphicons-halflings-white.png | |-- hogan | | `-- hogan-2.0.0.min.js | |-- jquery | | `-- jquery-1.8.3.min.js | |-- twt | | |-- sprite.png | | |-- sprite.rtl.png | | |-- twt.all.min.js | | `-- twt.min.css | `-- underscore | `-- underscore-min.js `-- README.txt
So why is this interesting?
The Data
The archive includes data both as CSV and as JavaScript. The CSV is perfect for throwing into a spreadsheet, and doing stuff with it there. The JavaScript is actually a very light shim over some JSON data that is quite a bit richer than the CSV. The JavaScript shim is needed so that it can be used by the app that comes in the archive (more on that later). For example hereâs a randomly picked tweet from Sarah:
https://twitter.com/sarahebourne/status/281405942321532929
Here is how the Tweet shows up in the CSV:
"tweet_id","in_reply_to_status_id","in_reply_to_user_id","retweeted_status_id","retweeted_status_user_id","timestamp","source","text","expanded_urls"
"281405942321532929","281400879465238529","61233","","","2012-12-19 14:29:39 +0000","Janetter","@monkchips Ouch. Some regrets are harsher than others."
And hereâs the archived JSON for the Tweet:
{
"source" : "Janetter",
"entities" : {
"user_mentions" : [ {
"name" : "James Governor",
"screen_name" : "monkchips",
"indices" : [ 0, 10 ],
"id_str" : "61233",
"id" : 61233
} ],
"media" : [ ],
"hashtags" : [ ],
"urls" : [ ]
},
"in_reply_to_status_id_str" : "281400879465238529",
"geo" : {
},
"id_str" : "281405942321532929",
"in_reply_to_user_id" : 61233,
"text" : "@monkchips Ouch. Some regrets are harsher than others.",
"id" : 281405942321532929,
"in_reply_to_status_id" : 281400879465238529,
"created_at" : "Wed Dec 19 14:29:39 +0000 2012",
"in_reply_to_screen_name" : "monkchips",
"in_reply_to_user_id_str" : "61233",
"user" : {
"name" : "Sarah Bourne",
"screen_name" : "sarahebourne",
"protected" : false,
"id_str" : "16010789",
"profile_image_url_https" : "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/638441870/Snapshot-of-sb_normal.jpg",
"id" : 16010789,
"verified" : false
}
}
So thereâs quite a bit more structured data in the archived JSON including whether geo coordinates, hash tags, urls mentioned, etc. Also, the avatar images are still referenced out on the Web, where they can change, disappear, etc. Itâs also interesting to compare the archived JSON against what you get back the from Twitter API for the same Tweet:
{
"user": {
"follow_request_sent": false,
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"default_profile_image": false,
"id": 16010789,
"verified": false,
"profile_text_color": "080C0C",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/638441870/Snapshot-of-sb_normal.jpg",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "FCFAEF",
"entities": {
"url": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbourne",
"indices": [
0,
38
],
"expanded_url": null
}
]
},
"description": {
"urls": []
}
},
"followers_count": 2367,
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "FFFFFF",
"id_str": "16010789",
"profile_background_color": "DAE0D9",
"listed_count": 331,
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/671143407/8544adf04bc3823d306c7f05efef2351.jpeg",
"utc_offset": -18000,
"statuses_count": 20090,
"description": "Internet technology strategist, Accessibility and assistive technologies. Views expressed/implied are my own. See my Twitter lists for more interests.",
"friends_count": 784,
"location": "Boston, MA, USA",
"profile_link_color": "800326",
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/638441870/Snapshot-of-sb_normal.jpg",
"following": true,
"geo_enabled": false,
"profile_banner_url": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_banners/16010789/1348096060",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/671143407/8544adf04bc3823d306c7f05efef2351.jpeg",
"screen_name": "sarahebourne",
"lang": "en",
"profile_background_tile": true,
"favourites_count": 3147,
"name": "Sarah Bourne",
"notifications": null,
"url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbourne",
"created_at": "Wed Aug 27 12:24:25 +0000 2008",
"contributors_enabled": false,
"time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
"protected": false,
"default_profile": false,
"is_translator": false
},
"favorited": false,
"entities": {
"user_mentions": [
{
"id": 61233,
"indices": [
0,
10
],
"id_str": "61233",
"screen_name": "monkchips",
"name": "James Governor"
}
],
"hashtags": [],
"urls": []
},
"contributors": null,
"truncated": false,
"text": "@monkchips Ouch. Some regrets are harsher than others.",
"created_at": "Wed Dec 19 14:29:39 +0000 2012",
"retweeted": false,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": "281400879465238529",
"coordinates": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": "61233",
"source": "Janetter",
"in_reply_to_status_id": 281400879465238529,
"in_reply_to_screen_name": "monkchips",
"id_str": "281405942321532929",
"place": null,
"retweet_count": 0,
"geo": null,
"id": 281405942321532929,
"in_reply_to_user_id": 61233
}
Using json-diff itâs not too difficult to see what the differences are between the archived version and the API version:
{
+ favorited: false
+ contributors: null
+ truncated: false
+ retweeted: false
+ coordinates: null
+ place: null
+ retweet_count: 0
entities: {
- media: [
- ]
}
- geo: {
- }
+ geo: null
user: {
+ follow_request_sent: false
+ profile_use_background_image: true
+ default_profile_image: false
+ profile_text_color: "080C0C"
+ profile_sidebar_fill_color: "FCFAEF"
+ entities: {
+ url: {
+ urls: [
+ {
+ url: "http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbourne"
+ indices: [
+ 0
+ 38
+ ]
+ expanded_url: null
+ }
+ ]
+ }
+ description: {
+ urls: [
+ ]
+ }
+ }
+ followers_count: 2367
+ profile_sidebar_border_color: "FFFFFF"
+ profile_background_color: "DAE0D9"
+ listed_count: 331
+ profile_background_image_url_https: "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/671143407/8544adf04bc3823d306c7f05efef2351.jpeg"
+ utc_offset: -18000
+ statuses_count: 20090
+ description: "Internet technology strategist, Accessibility and assistive technologies. Views expressed/implied are my own. See my Twitter lists for more interests."
+ friends_count: 784
+ location: "Boston, MA, USA"
+ profile_link_color: "800326"
+ profile_image_url: "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/638441870/Snapshot-of-sb_normal.jpg"
+ following: true
+ geo_enabled: false
+ profile_banner_url: "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_banners/16010789/1348096060"
+ profile_background_image_url: "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/671143407/8544adf04bc3823d306c7f05efef2351.jpeg"
+ lang: "en"
+ profile_background_tile: true
+ favourites_count: 3147
+ notifications: null
+ url: "http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbourne"
+ created_at: "Wed Aug 27 12:24:25 +0000 2008"
+ contributors_enabled: false
+ time_zone: "Eastern Time (US & Canada)"
+ default_profile: false
+ is_translator: false
}
}
To be fair some of the user profile information has been normalized in the archive (perhaps to save space for the viewing application) out to a user_details.js file, which looks like:
{
"screen_name" : "sarahebourne",
"location" : "Boston, MA, USA",
"full_name" : "Sarah Bourne",
"bio" : "Internet technology strategist, Accessibility and assistive technologies. Views expressed/implied are my own. See my Twitter lists for more interests.",
"id" : "16010789",
"created_at" : "Wed Aug 27 12:24:25 +0000 2008"
}
Notably missing from this is a homepage for the user, their number of favourites, their number of friends, followers, whether geo is enabled, etc.
All these details aside, Twitter deserves a lot of credit for making the data available as CSV for ease of use, and also as JavaScript for programmatic use.
The Code
So the really, really neat thing about the archive is that it comes with a pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript application that you can open locally in your browser and view your archive. It looks pretty, for example here is Sarahâs archive that Dave Winer mounted up on S3. It even has a keyword search across all your tweets, which takes a bit of time (it interactively loads all your tweet JavaScript files mentioned above), but it works. You can zip the data up, give it to someone else, and it all just works.
The archive uses some third party libraries such as jQuery, Underscore, Twitter Bootstrap and Hogan, which all come minified and bundled statically in the archive. The application itself is called Grailbird and comes minified as well. Grailbird loads the static JavaScript (as needed) and displays it. The only network traffic I saw while it was running was fetching avatar images.
Assuming JavaScript backwards compatibility, and browser support for JavaScript, the Twitter archiveâs contextual display for the underlying data could last a long, long time. At least thatâs a possible interpretation based on David Rosenthalâs hypothesis about the Webâs effect on format obsolescence. I think itâs safe to say that this app written for the local Web platform is likely last longer than a GUI application written in another language environment. The separation of code and data, and independence from a particular browser implementation are big wins. These are qualities that we all had to fight and work hard for on the Web, and I think it makes sense to re-purpose them here in an archival context.
I doubt anyone from Twitter has read this far, but if someone has, it would be great to see Grailbird show up with the other great stuff you have released to Github. I found myself wanting to quickly search across tweets looking for things, like geo-enabled tweets (to make sure that they are there). I could look at the minified Grailbird source in Chrome using developer tools, but it wasnât good enough for me to figure out how to dynamically load data. I resorted to using NodeJS, and evaling the JavaScript filesâŚand was able to confirm that there is geo data in the archives if you have it enabled. Hereâs the simplistic script I came up with:
var fs = require('fs');
var Grailbird = {data: {}};
// load all the tweet data
eval(fs.readFileSync("data/js/tweet_index.js", "utf8"));
for (var i = 0; i < tweet_index.length; i++) {
eval(fs.readFileSync(tweet_index[i].file_name, "utf8"));
}
// look at each tweet and print out the date and geolocation if it's there
for (var slice in Grailbird.data) {
for (var j = 0; j < Grailbird.data[slice].length; j++) {
var tweet = Grailbird.data[slice][j];
if (tweet.geo.coordinates) console.log(tweet.created_at, ",", tweet.geo.coordinates.join(","));
}
}
and the output for Jeremy Keithâs archive.
% node geo.js Fri Nov 30 13:08:33 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.138112306595 Sat Nov 17 12:09:18 +0000 2012,54.6000387923,-5.9254288673 Fri Nov 16 22:32:03 +0000 2012,54.5925614526,-5.930852294 Thu Nov 15 13:35:35 +0000 2012,54.595909,-5.922033 Sat Nov 10 12:59:37 +0000 2012,50.825832,-0.142381 Fri Nov 09 13:54:51 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Wed Nov 07 18:07:24 +0000 2012,50.825977,-0.138339 Tue Nov 06 16:58:49 +0000 2012,50.8378257671,-1.1800042739 Tue Oct 30 11:19:53 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Thu Oct 18 17:51:22 +0000 2012,43.0733634985,-89.38608062 Tue Oct 16 17:29:20 +0000 2012,43.0872606735,-89.3659955263 Tue Oct 09 18:11:20 +0000 2012,40.7406891129,-74.0076184273 Sun Oct 07 14:27:50 +0000 2012,50.82906975,-0.126056 Sat Oct 06 16:29:30 +0000 2012,50.825832,-0.142381 Thu Oct 04 16:46:56 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Tue Oct 02 17:46:42 +0000 2012,50.826646,-0.136921 Mon Oct 01 10:46:04 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Oct 01 10:43:46 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Oct 01 09:38:01 +0000 2012,50.8236703111,-0.1387184062 Mon Oct 01 08:53:15 +0000 2012,50.8236703111,-0.1387184062 Thu Sep 27 13:05:16 +0000 2012,59.915652,10.749959 Sun Sep 23 12:54:16 +0000 2012,50.8281663943,-0.128531456 Sat Sep 22 13:44:09 +0000 2012,50.87447886,0.017625 Thu Sep 20 13:16:11 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Thu Sep 20 09:27:55 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Sep 17 07:51:20 +0000 2012,47.9952739036,7.8525775405 Sun Sep 16 09:01:28 +0000 2012,51.1599172667,-0.1787844393 Thu Sep 13 12:40:26 +0000 2012,50.822951,-0.136905 Tue Sep 11 18:41:47 +0000 2012,50.822746,-0.142274 Tue Sep 11 17:19:38 +0000 2012,50.822219,-0.140802 Tue Sep 11 13:05:59 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Tue Sep 11 13:03:35 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Tue Sep 11 12:48:51 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Tue Sep 11 12:06:36 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Tue Sep 11 08:23:00 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Sun Sep 09 19:10:21 +0000 2012,50.826646,-0.136921 Tue Sep 04 17:33:44 +0000 2012,50.826646,-0.136921 Tue Sep 04 12:57:16 +0000 2012,50.822951,-0.136905 Mon Sep 03 16:03:37 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Sep 03 15:26:41 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Sun Sep 02 19:40:38 +0000 2012,50.8229428584,-0.1390289018 Sun Sep 02 19:24:45 +0000 2012,50.8229428584,-0.1390289018 Sun Sep 02 19:08:55 +0000 2012,50.825977,-0.138339 Sun Sep 02 18:25:08 +0000 2012,50.825449,-0.137123 Sun Sep 02 17:04:15 +0000 2012,50.825449,-0.137123 Sun Sep 02 15:34:31 +0000 2012,50.8229428584,-0.1390289018 Fri Aug 31 17:33:20 +0000 2012,50.8291396274,-0.133923449 Fri Aug 31 09:20:04 +0000 2012,50.8311581116,-0.1335176435 Tue Aug 28 20:44:32 +0000 2012,41.8844650304,-87.6257600109 Mon Aug 27 13:57:24 +0000 2012,41.8844650304,-87.6257600109 Sat Aug 25 18:45:51 +0000 2012,41.8851594291,-87.6232355833 Wed Aug 22 12:32:45 +0000 2012,50.824415,-0.134691 Tue Aug 21 11:39:46 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Aug 20 11:01:28 +0000 2012,51.535132,-0.069309 Fri Aug 17 12:03:40 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Sat Aug 11 16:08:13 +0000 2012,50.826646,-0.136921 Fri Aug 10 14:25:15 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Wed Aug 08 11:51:45 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Tue Aug 07 15:45:49 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Fri Aug 03 16:38:55 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Fri Aug 03 14:33:04 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Sat Jul 28 14:57:52 +0000 2012,50.825449,-0.137123 Sat Jul 28 12:09:01 +0000 2012,50.828404,-0.137435 Thu Jul 26 17:17:22 +0000 2012,50.8266230357,-0.1367429505 Tue Jul 24 15:07:39 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Jul 23 12:25:35 +0000 2012,50.823104,-0.139515 Sat Jul 21 12:46:25 +0000 2012,50.827943,-0.136033 Fri Jul 20 13:21:41 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Jul 16 19:28:01 +0000 2012,50.825449,-0.137123 Sun Jul 15 10:48:44 +0000 2012,51.4714930776,-0.4883337021 Sat Jul 14 23:08:27 +0000 2012,41.974037,-87.890239 Tue Jul 10 13:44:08 +0000 2012,30.2655234842,-97.7385378752 Mon Jul 09 19:32:48 +0000 2012,30.2655234842,-97.7385378752 Mon Jul 09 14:40:21 +0000 2012,30.2656095537,-97.7385592461 Sat Jul 07 15:08:12 +0000 2012,51.4726745412,-0.4817537462 Fri Jun 29 10:55:03 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Wed Jun 20 10:23:29 +0000 2012,51.488197,-0.120692 Mon Jun 18 12:12:01 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Mon Jun 18 12:02:43 +0000 2012,50.8262027605,-0.1381123066 Sat Jun 16 15:51:15 +0000 2012,50.8244773427,-0.1387893509 Sat Jun 16 15:10:29 +0000 2012,50.827972412,-0.136271402 Fri Jun 15 22:15:44 +0000 2012,50.947306,0.090209 Fri Jun 15 12:58:27 +0000 2012,50.947306,0.090209 Wed Jun 13 12:12:49 +0000 2012,50.822951,-0.136905 Mon Jun 11 14:05:50 +0000 2012,50.825977,-0.138339 Wed Jun 06 16:31:48 +0000 2012,51.50361668,-0.683839 Wed Jun 06 15:38:45 +0000 2012,51.50361668,-0.683839 Sat Jun 02 15:40:48 +0000 2012,50.825449,-0.137123 Fri Jun 01 13:29:40 +0000 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I guess itâs kind of scary that you can do this, and is perhaps why Twitter doesnât let you export anyoneâs account, even if it is public. But returning to the issue of Grailbird being on Github, I imagine there would be people that would write code that uses Grailbird as an API to the archive data, to provide extensions that would display a map of where youâve been over time for example, or an analysis of your friendship network, or a view on hashtags youâve used, events youâve been at etc.
I think from an archival perspective, it would be really useful to be able to receive something like a Tweet archive from a donor, and overlay functionality on top of it. The model of using the Web as a local application platform for this sort of archival content seems like it could be a growth area.