Twitter for R programmers
  • 1 UPDATE
  • 2 The warmest of welcomes to you!
    • 2.1 What you can get out of Twitter
      • 2.1.1 The friendly R community
      • 2.1.2 Keeping up with what’s going down
      • 2.1.3 Learn from each other
      • 2.1.4 Making friends on Twitter (it’s a real thing)
  • 3 Follow some folks
    • 3.1 Following people and organisations
      • 3.1.1 A note on your own follower count
    • 3.2 How to unfollow people
  • 4 Read the feed
    • 4.1 Someone you follow posts a tweet
    • 4.2 Someone you follow replies to a tweet
    • 4.3 Retweets
    • 4.4 Liked tweets
    • 4.5 Promoted tweets
  • 5 Let’s dissect some tweets
    • 5.1 Viral tweet
    • 5.2 Good news
    • 5.3 Help and technical questions
    • 5.4 Poll
    • 5.5 Info sharing
  • 6 #Hashtags, what are they good for?
    • 6.1 #RStats
    • 6.2 #TidyTuesday
    • 6.3 Event hashtags
  • 7 Your first tweets
    • 7.1 Add a hashtag
    • 7.2 Add images, GIFs or emoji
    • 7.3 Polls
    • 7.4 More inspiration
  • 8 How threads work
  • 9 Tips for a great experience
    • 9.1 Mute words
  • 10 All about bots
    • 10.1 Benign bots
    • 10.2 Funny bots
      • 10.2.1 Dead accounts
  • 11 Diving deeper into R and Twitter
    • 11.1 Curating the WeAreRLadies account
    • 11.2 Scheduling tweets
    • 11.3 Analyzing Twitter data with rtweets
    • 11.4 Sending tweets from inside Rstudio
  • 12 Thanks & Author bio
    • 12.1 Thank you!
    • 12.2 About the authors
      • 12.2.1 Oscar Baruffa (@OscarBaruffa)
      • 12.2.2 Veerle van Son (@veerlevanson)
  • 13 Links and Further reading
    • 13.1 Tidy Tuesday
    • 13.2 Twitter & Academia
    • 13.3 Twitter analysis
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Twitter for R programmers

13 Links and Further reading

13.1 Tidy Tuesday

  • Tidy Tuesday github page
  • tidytuesday.rocks, a Shiny app by @nealgrantham
  • Ten reasons why I love Tidy Tuesday, a blogpost by @veerlevanson

13.2 Twitter & Academia

  • Twitter for scientists by @dsquintana
  • Ten simple rules for getting started on Twitter as a scientist, journal article in PLoS Computational Biology by @DrVeronikaCH, @Felienne, @CaAl, @nbielczyk_neuro and @ionicasmeets.

13.3 Twitter analysis

  • Analysing the R Twitterverse, blogpost by @perrystephenson
  • How to search Twitter with rtweet and R by @sharon000