I have been preparing a couple of talks I have to give in the next couple of weeks and I needed some pictures of the people working in Signal to have some nice images about the team and the company in general. Although we have some of them store online, I realised that our Twitter account had some of the best pictures, especially for the early days of the company. Almost at the same time, I was reading a blogpost about mining twitter data with python, written by my good friend and ex-colleague (in Queen Mary), Dr. Marco Bonzanini. These two events together seemed like a good excuse to build a little tool in python to download the pictures that a twitter account has published and this is the main focus of this post. I hope you find it useful, I definitely have…

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