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twitter.archive: workaround for broken dates in some archive tweets #467

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions src/my/twitter/archive.py
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Expand Up @@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ def tweets(self) -> Iterator[Tweet]:
# NOTE: for some reason, created_at doesn't seem to be in order
# it mostly is, but there are a bunch of one-off random tweets where the time decreases (typically at the very end)
for r in self.raw(what='tweet', fname=fname):
created_at_str = r['created_at']
created_at_year = int(created_at_str[-4:])
if created_at_year < 2006: # twitter didn't exist before that
# had a couple of tweets with 1997/2003 as year... in 2025-09-17 export... possibly some exporter bug
# for now just ignore
continue
yield Tweet(r, screen_name=self.screen_name)

def likes(self) -> Iterator[Like]:
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