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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by throwaway4585 on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:39AM (#22856221)
A strong quality label is that twint's twitter account got suspended - evidently Twitter doesn't like that a third party tool scrapes tweets better than they allow to.
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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by fnord123 on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:21PM (#22860158)
Their API is absolute garbage. Search is incomplete and streaming consumes GBs/hour even when you're getting no results.
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