Twitter entities

If scraping tweets, you’ll notice that the screen_names nested in the entities output maybe different that the screen_names nested in the actual tweets.

twitter: []

tweet: [“sorabgill”]

twitter: [“bildgta”]

tweet: [“Urbanation”, “bildgta”]

twitter: [“symmetrydevelop”]

tweet: [“symmetrydevelop”, “KL_McAllister”]

The reason for this is because people delete their twitter accounts. Twitter updates their entities with this, but not the tweets. Maybe it’ll seem too big brotherish, if they completely erased the existence of people :P.