Accessing retweet data
Now we're going to work with a tweet JSON that contains a retweet. A retweet has the same structure as a regular tweet, except that it has another tweet stored in retweeted_status.
The new tweet has been loaded as rt.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing Social Media Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Print the text of the tweet.
- Print the text of the tweet which has been retweeted, which is contained in
retweeted_status. - Print the user handle of the tweet.
- Print the user handle of the tweet which has been retweeted, which is contained in
retweeted_status.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Print the text of the tweet
print(rt[____])
# Print the text of tweet which has been retweeted
print(rt[____][____])
# Print the user handle of the tweet
print(rt[____][____])
# Print the user handle of the tweet which has been retweeted
print(rt[____][____][____])