Posting Ads to Twitter

Daniel’s question in class on Monday, about whether we were planning to release the ads we have found to the public, reminded me that we had earlier discussed the possibility of tweeting out our transcriptions with a link to the zoomed image in Portal of Texas History.

This tutorial suggests that may not be too difficult, especially now that we have a way to get all of our transcriptions out of our spreadsheets and into text files. It would be possible to write a script that reconstructs the URL to the page image from the title of our text files, and then tweets the first several words of the transcription with a link. That could be a way both of sharing our finds and of increasing interest in our larger project.

Is this something we would still be interested in doing? Thoughts?

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