Searching Twitter for information about the shooting incident involving Kyle Rittenhouse

#kylerittenhouse

Search query form

(from:ElijahSchaffer OR from:BGOnTheScene OR from:livesmattershow) since:2020-08-24 until:2020-08-27

sort by “latest” for reverse chronological search (“f=live” in the url)

people who were covering the events on twitter

big long chronological twitter search: paste into twitter search bar & sort it by latest

the query got too for twitter to accept it, so I removed a few that are on the list above.

Maybe I should do two queries instead.

twitter search interface

since:2020-08-25 until:2020-08-27 ( from:livesmattershow OR from:bgonthescene OR from:ElijahSchaffer OR from:RichieMcGinniss OR from:Julio_Rosas11 OR from:ShelbyTalcott OR from:VenturaReport OR from:AdrianaMendez OR from:ViNguyen OR from:CharlieDeMar OR from:tmj4tom OR from:lauren_linder OR from:GidTruth OR from:delvecchiograce OR from:TonyAtkinsTV OR from:OmarJimenez OR from:sarasniderCNN OR from:angela_major_ OR from:RicoReporting OR from:MrJesusJMontero OR from:NoB1konoB )

query link sorted reverse chronologically

Dating on tweets

Tweets appear to be displayed in whatever twitter thinks is my local time, not the local time of the place the tweet was taken. This seems to go for older tweets as well as new tweets.

To get the correct local-to-capture date&time on tweets:

So I'm assuming what twitter does is store the date in UTC, or something like that, regardless of daylight savings or anything else.

And then it tries to determine your local time zone and display all the dates in your local time zone.

I don't know if it adjust for daylight savings in your local time. Like if it displays e.g. UTC_stored_time-6 for dates when local time was using CST, and UTC_stored_time-5 for dates when local time was using CDT. I guess you could try to confirm based on known times of events.

But for starters, assuming there's no daylight savings kind of adjustment, and twitter just does a flat UTC_stored_time+-X to convert to whatever your current local time is: how to get local time to a specific location from the time twitter displays to you for an event:

Here's a tweet to check time correction: this tweet says it was sent a little after 8pm local time that night. (this tweet says curfew was at 8pm that night)

Oh, I could just use this checking-time-correction tweet as a calibration tweet. Whatever correction is needed to get that tweet time right is the same correction I should use on other tweets from that night at Kenosha.

I guess “curfew” might be a good way to find a calibration tweet in the future for other events. Maybe “press conference” too, or other events that have a published known time.

Is there a way to get time information from video data?

maybe location data too?

Presenting tweets in a better way?

does this thing let me do just html like this?

Wow! That's amazing!

But maybe not quite what I want.

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