[liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

[Rick Valenzuela]

What do you want the format to look like? You can pull out the data in
JSON format, but the basic get writes out all the metadata associated
with the tweet. 

I cobbled together a Python script here: https://gist.github.com/rveeblefetzer/0f65c6d9ebcee640f33d18f9585af03f

(Note that you need to put in your own API/OAuth info)

Right now it takes the last 10 tweets from the account and puts them
into a text file as JSON. With a little more info, it could be written
to parse that and output the details you need in the format you'd
prefer. 

I could put this up in a repo, if others want to tweak and test it.
Time's a little tight for me right now, but I can take a whack at it
here and there.

Best,
Rick

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On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 02:40:53PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote:
>OK, so how about we create a digest of the day's Tweets on @Liberationtech
>and send them every morning? Then subscribers will receive one email a day
>and decide if any of the tweets are worth discussing.
>
>Does anyone know of a good app that does this? I've found a lot of apps
>online that claim to do so, but the majority are dead.
>
>Thanks,
>Yosem
>
>On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Andrés Pacheco <alps6085 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm all for more news, total, aren't we swamped with spam already as it
>> is? So libre tech news from the twitter feed would help improve the ratio
>> of spam to good stuff in our inbox.
>>
>> Tagging is for sissies and I assume this list is full of superduper smart
>> techies nerds that don't need no stinking badges to filter classify sort
>> autodeletearchivefile incoming email, oh god how much I miss now emacs
>> mhmail, "la última Coca-Cola del desierto, or isn't it?😈
>>
>> BTW I'm unemployed starting 2 days gym now svdcresfy to join the
>> resistance, drop me a live if you have something anywhere that you might
>> think would interest me in the world of ICT4-dev-social/migrant/youth/anybody's
>> Justice etc
>>
>> Regards | Saludos,
>>
>> Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
>> <alps at acm.org>
>>
>> > On Feb 5, 2017, at 2:59 PM, José María Mateos <chema at rinzewind.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 03:41:18PM +0100, carlo von lynX wrote:
>> >>> - I'd rather have two mailing lists only: one for discussions (all
>> >>> type   of discussions) and one for announcements. If everything goes
>> >>> into the   same list, at least have the announcements clearly tagged
>> >>> so they can   be easily filtered.
>> >>
>> >> Okay, but please start with a clone of the subscriptions
>> >> so we don't have to manually subscribe both to recreate
>> >> the status quo.
>> >>
>> >> Also, please put an automatic Reply-To: in the announcements
>> >> that leads to the discussion list. I personally would still
>> >> merge both streams into the same folder because I find it
>> >> interesting whenever libtech people have a comment to add to
>> >> a piece of news.
>> >
>> > Agree with this.
>> >
>> >>>   - An e-mail with news every 10 minutes may be too much. Wouldn't
>> >>> it be   better to have a daily news digest of some sort? Then anyone
>> >>> could   start a discussion based on it.
>> >>
>> >> I guess most of us absorb the "news" by just grasping what
>> >> the subject line says, then decide what is worth digging
>> >> into. A digest format would impede that kind of fast absorption.
>> >> Anyone who prefers digests can still choose the digest feature
>> >> of the mailing list software... right?
>> >
>> > Yes, as long as the Twitter news is sent to a list that doesn't include
>> the discussions per se (or are flagged with a [Twitter] tag in the subject
>> line so they can be filtered.)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > JMM.
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