Social Media Archiving: Introducing DocNow 1.0

From DocNow:

Today the Documenting the Now project announces the release of DocNow, an application for appraising, collecting, and gathering consent for Twitter content. DocNow reimagines the relationship between content creators and social media analysts (archivists and researchers) by addressing two of the most challenging issues of social media archiving practice — the issues of consent and appraisal. The Documenting the Now Project is happy to release version 1.0 of our open-source tool freely for anyone to use.

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In continuing to support and develop tools that embody ethical practices for social media archiving, the DocNow app joins this suite of tools. DocNow is an application for appraising, collecting, and gathering consent for Twitter content and includes several new features including:

• Trends tab to view trending topics across the globe in real-time
• Explore tab to view content by users, media, URLs, and related hashtags all on one screen
• Live testing and refining of collecting parameters on recent tweets
• Tweets per hour calculator to easily identify Twitter bot accounts
• Search and Collect tweets back in time via Search API and forwards with Stream API
• Activate toggle to start collecting tweets and send a notification tweet to encourage transparency and communication in Twitter data collection
• Collections tab to share information about your collection with the public
• “Find Me” and Insights Overview features to specify and gather consent using Social Humans labels
• Download Tweet ID archive for sharing following Twitter’s terms of service

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