Finding the most liked tweets for a topic in a year

I’m nearly halfway through writing a month of daily blog posts. I wanted to write some posts covering the history of both Wikidata and Wikibase on Twitter. Being a developer, I looked for APIs, but it seems tweets are not as accessible as they once were.

This is a short write up of my adventure, covering APIs, scraping thoughts, and finally, my working solution, all be it with a quirk of 2 that I can’t explain.

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