Here’s a brief demo of what it looks like to use twarc on the command line to archive tweets that are mentioning Ferguson. I’ve been doing archiving around this topic off and on since August of last year, and happened to start it up again recently to collect the response to the Justice Department report.

I kind of glossed over getting your Twitter keys set up, which is a bit tedious. I have them set in environment variables for that demo, but you can pass them in on the command line now. I guess that could be another demo sometime. If you are interested send me a tweet.