See the Pen Twitter Tweet URL Generator by Bramus (@bramus) on CodePen.
Today I learned that Twitter totally ignores the username in the “tweet detail route” on their website. This allows you to view details of a (public) tweet when knowing only its ID, without needing to access the Twitter API (which is the default geeky approach I was first going to take).
Embedded above is a small tool I built to help you with that. Simply enter the Tweet ID and hit “Generate URL”.
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Twitter’s tweet detail route has the form of https://twitter.com/{userName}/status/{tweetId}. When passing in a tweetId with a non-matching/invalid userName, the Twitter website will automatically redirect to the URL with the correct userName
Example: To see the contents of the tweet with id 932586791953158144 just visit https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/932586791953158144 and you’ll be redirected to its actual URL: https://twitter.com/bramus/status/932586791953158144
Handy 😊
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Ingenious. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much !
Do you know how to use this method to create Dataset of tweets?
I would like to know too.
Thank You so much for the idea!