v1.2.0

The big change in this release is that twarc will now emit tweets in extended mode by default when it is feching tweets from Twitter's REST API. This means the information previously available in .text will now be found in .full_text.

On the other hand, data collected with twarc's filter and sample commands from Twitter's streaming APIs continue to use .text but have the additional .extended_tweet stanza when tweets require it.

For all the grizzly details please see this announcement from Twitter. You also might be interested in reading this post from the Social Feed Manager project.

If you have data pipelines of any kind built with twarc we highly recommend that you test that things are working properly before install twarc in a production environment. If you would prefer to get data the old way please use --tweet_mode compat. Unfortunately there is no way to change the mode for the streaming APIs.