Post contributed by Owen Avery ‘25, Digital Scholarship Assistant Almost 500 million tweets are sent per day, and thanks to Twitter’s fairly generous API (a tool that allows users to look at Twitter data without having to go on the page itself), there are loads of tools available to collect large datasets of tweets using…
Category: APIs
APIs and Serendipity
Have you heard of an API, or Application Programming Interface? If not, it may not seem like something you want to hear about. If you have, it might still be difficult to understand exactly what it is and why you should care. In either case, you can still take advantage of APIs for teaching and…