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Search and extract timelines

Similar to search_tweets(), get_timeline() is another function in the rtweet library that can be used to extract tweets.

The get_timeline() function is different from search_tweets(). It extracts tweets posted by a given user to their timeline instead of searching based on a query.

The get_timeline() function can extract up to 3200 tweets at a time.

In this exercise, you will extract tweets posted by Cristiano Ronaldo, a very popular soccer player both on the field and on social media who has the @Cristiano twitter handle.

The library rtweet has been pre-loaded for this exercise.

This exercise is part of the course

Analyzing Social Media Data in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Extract 3200 tweets posted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
  • View the first few rows and columns of the extracted tweets.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Extract tweets posted by the user @Cristiano
get_cris <- ___("___", n = ___)

# View output for the first 5 columns and 10 rows
head(___[,1:5], 10)
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