Archive of 43k+ Donald Trump Twitter Screenshots
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No affiliation to that site, just found it useful.
Still requires work, but perhaps a tiny step in making them somewhat accessible again.
There are lots of things that are deleted and are impossible to find afterwards because somebody has to archive it and at some point that "somebody" stops caring. So when things like the service they used to host the content clear up old content, things don't get reuploaded.
I really hope that these tweets are not only stored, but stored in a way that makes it difficult to prevent manipulation. I think many of Trump's tweets (and his family) are historic. Hopefully they're archived in a way that they last decades/centuries.
> Please visit this page on a desktop computer.
That’s unfortunate...
Does anyone have any insight as to why the tweets are archived as screenshots, as opposed to text?
> (Direct download, 2.6 GB)
Assuming each tweet plus its associated metadata is roughly ~500 bytes, then the 43k tweets in text form would be approximately 22 megabytes. The images are 2.6 gigabytes.
Not from the perspective of verifiability, but from the perspective of showing them as they were seen in the moment (fonts, profile icons, layout) screenshots do seem a touch more historically accurate
Okay, maybe a bit of CSS could do the same. But this requires someone to change the CSS. Adding an image can be done by any journalist and is mostly risk-free. You cannot break the looks of other articles this way.
This, of course, is only to argue why such a tool exists.
For any other medium an article can just quote the content.
As they just permabanned him, it'd be possible (and great) to have a complete archive, for history preservation.