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

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On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 04:36:02PM -0500, Thomas Delrue wrote:
>On 02/19/2017 04:25 PM, Rick Valenzuela wrote:
>> and maybe the URL for the article linked within the tweet.
>
>Please consider santizing this (i.e. remove the redirection that first
>hits twatter) so that they doesn't see that you click on/visit the link,
>that would be good.
>Plus, then people also immediately know where they'll be taken if they
>click the link.
>
>Also, avoid HTML, prefer plaintext. Why dazzle them with style, when you
>can dazzle them with substance?

Hi Thomas,

I rewrote my script to do that; each tweet would be split into three
lines: the tweet's URL, the tweet text and the expanded link contained
within the tweet. For example:

```
https://twitter.com/Liberationtech/status/833379727691886592
The latest The Liberationtech Daily! https://t.co/WGRVUpKJUC
http://paper.li/Liberationtech?edition_id=853a4330-f6cf-11e6-89dc-0cc47a0d15fd
```

I put it in a repo here: https://github.com/rveeblefetzer/libtech_days_tweets

There is one issue: if the tweet is a retweet or reply, the expanded_url
from the API's 'entities' shows a truncated short URL, like: https://t.co…

And hey Ceci! The script I posted also uses Tweepy. Check it out --
there is of course much more data that could be pulled, but I kept it
minimal, thinking that this is likely best for a plaintext summary.

Best,
Rick

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Rick Valenzuela
Videojournalist
Shanghai, China

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