Trump didn't tweet as much as I thought
I think it was someone else talking about Maddow, who referenced Trump tweeting 120 times on Mother's Day. This, as further evidence of the meltdown that was trending on Twitter. It's funny: as opposed to checking, I decided this would be my #Python project; to pull down statistics on Trump's tweets through Twitter's API.
Well, thanks to Andy Patel's blog post on F-Secure, I did get some code working that pulled down his total number of tweets, from over 4000 days ago until now: over 51000; that's an average of 12.65 per day! I wanted to break it down by, say, the last month, and then the last seven days, so I could alert on some sort of spike. I'm not sure the API is up to that; not easily, anyway. I think I'd need to be counting the tweets as they happen, making sure not to run up against the significant limits and throttling Twitter have put in place these days.
Every question about the Twitter API on Stack Overflow seems to be five to ten years old. Makes sense, if it's been pretty much locked down. Still, this was a fun project. Oh, and I did (finally) go to Trump Tweet Track — what a time-sink! — and, in terms of volume, apparently Mother's Day was just another day for him. (I won't comment on the content; need to go wipe my eyeballs now.)
End of Day 3
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