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What is tweet-counter?

tanykim/tweet-counter — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2018-12-26

PythonAudience · generalComplexity · 1/5DormantSetup · easy

In one sentence

A small Python tool that counts how many tweets you posted each day from your Twitter data export and saves the totals as JSON for charting.

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    What it does
      Counts daily tweets
      Reads Twitter CSV archive
      Outputs JSON summary
    Tech stack
      Python
      CSV
      JSON
    Use cases
      Personal year in review
      Track tweeting habits
      Feed quantify-your-year
    Audience
      Journalists
      Researchers
      Curious individuals
    Workflow
      Download Twitter archive
      Run the tool
      Visualize with companion project

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Count how many tweets you posted per day from your downloaded Twitter archive.

USE CASE 2

Feed the resulting JSON into the quantify-your-year project to visualize your tweeting patterns.

USE CASE 3

Do a personal year-in-review analysis of your social media activity.

What is it built with?

PythonCSVJSON

How does it compare?

tanykim/tweet-counter0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch100/praw
Stars—0—
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2018-12-26—2015-09-26
MaintenanceDormant—Dormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity1/54/52/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires downloading your own Twitter data archive as a CSV before running the tool.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me run tweet-counter on my downloaded Twitter CSV archive to get a daily tweet count JSON file.
Prompt 2
Show me how to feed the JSON output from tweet-counter into quantify-your-year for visualization.
Prompt 3
Modify tweet-counter so it also counts tweets per week instead of just per day.

Frequently asked questions

What is tweet-counter?

A small Python tool that counts how many tweets you posted each day from your Twitter data export and saves the totals as JSON for charting.

What language is tweet-counter written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, CSV, JSON.

Is tweet-counter actively maintained?

Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2018-12-26).

How hard is tweet-counter to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is tweet-counter for?

Mainly general.

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