Making a UK COVID-19 vaccine Twitter bot

UK COVID Vaccine

I’m not sure how much of my life I have spent watching progress bars, spinning circles, and animated hours glasses but it’s probably a lot. Why not make one on Twitter that can help us hold onto some strands of sanity while we wait for a COVID-19 vaccine to be rolled out?

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Scraping and identifying faces on Twitter with Python #FaceApp

FaceApp Scare

There’s been a lot of very worried people tweeting about FaceApp after a story broke that it is ‘uploading all of your photos’ to Russians. Despite the story shrinking, realising that their terms are no different from any other app and they’re not actually uploading photos there are still some very worried tweets like this: …

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