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Which Websites Do Congressmembers Tweet About?

The problem: The short-links used by Twitter obscure the actual website URLs.

The solution: Let's build our own dataset of short-links and their destinations.

Sep 20th, 2012

Lesson content is currently in draft form.

Perhaps the greatest power that programming gives is the ability to create your own data source.

We’ve already been doing this all along, of course.

Which links are most tweeted?

What are the short links?

Build our own link-finder

Build our own short-link database

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