Wikidata:Property proposal/tweet ID
tweet ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier of a status on Twitter |
|---|---|
| Represents | Tweet (Q56119332) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Allowed values | ([2-9]\d|[1-9]\d{2,18}) |
| Example 1 | Oscar tweet (Q56682408) → 440322224407314432 |
| Example 2 | Twitter (Q918) → inception (P571) → 21 March 2006 → reference: 20 |
| Example 3 | Camila Mendes (Q28659500) → date of birth (P569) → 29 jun 1994 → reference: 880895769250811905 |
| Example 4 | Elsa (Q15620419) → birthday (P3150) → winter solstice (Q207932) → reference: 506956591724105729 |
| Example 5 | María Concepción César (Q6761110) → member of (P463) → Argentinian Actors and Actresses Asociation (Q5708429) → reference: 1022582737516089344 |
| Source | https://twitter.com |
| Number of IDs in source | many billions |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://twitter.com/statuses/$1 |
| Robot and gadget jobs | Autofix for URL (P2699), reference URL (P854):https?://(www\.)?twitter\.com/[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,15}/status/(\d+)(\?.*)? → \2 |
| See also | Twitter (X) username (P2002), hashtag (P2572) |
Motivation[edit]
Using https://twitter.com/statuses/<tweet ID> instead of https://twitter.com/<username>/status/<tweet ID> makes the links username-independent. Having a property for status IDs lets us manage data quality, store these links in a more concise way, quickly query how many tweets are linked from Wikidata and from which entities, avoid URL parameters and centralize the pattern Wikidata uses for tweets so that we can easily update it in the future if needed. I think it's okay to use this property for both references and main claims, although we can expect a very low number of uses for the latter. abián 10:50, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Support Cwf97 (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2018 (UTC)- Support Great idea as a property for P31 of Tweet (example 1), but mostly for references as a primary source Germartin1 (talk) 07:12, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support David (talk) 07:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Sabas88 (talk) 20:57, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support Yes, good idea. --99of9 (talk) 05:13, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
- Support Surprised this wasn't a property already. Trivialist (talk) 01:41, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Trivialist, Germartin1, Abián, Cwf97, Sabas88: @99of9: 
Done: Twitter post ID (P5933). − Pintoch (talk) 08:19, 1 October 2018 (UTC)