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By @mhawksey
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By @mhawksey is a personal blog at mashe.hawksey.info about programming and data. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Martin Hawksey's posts on collecting Twitter data in Google Sheets and on exporting Twitter followers. The comments cite them as examples of similar tools and of Twitter's response.
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What Hacker News says?
Here's another awesome Google Doc in this area: A Google Spreadsheet that will harvest all tweets containing a given search string. The code is interesting, and I had no idea Google Docs had the equivalent of CRON: http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/
Comment linking /2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/
on “Show HN: Tweetsheets – Twitter directly from within Google Docs”Submitted Sync your Twitter Archive with Google Drive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionProbably not. See Twitter's response to this blog post of somebody trying to do something similar: http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/03/export-twitter-followers/ Even if we could, the users would have to register a Twitter developer application, making the user experience much worse than just OAuth, for no good reason.
Comment linking /2011/03/export-twitter-followers/
on “Why Twitter’s decision on Scraperwiki is bad for data democracy”Submitted Notes on the Future of Google Apps Script from Google Cloud Next ‘18 as a story · 1 points
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