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Accession 20-188

National Museum of Natural History

Website Records, 2019-2020

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Museum of Natural History
Title:Website Records
Dates:2019-2020
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Collection:Accession 20-188
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of approximately 12,403 tweets using the hashtag "#DeepTime." The hashtag was used by the National Museum of Natural History to promote the opening of the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time on June 8, 2019. After the opening, it continued to be used by the museum and the public for tweets related to the exhibition. Twitter is a microblogging platform and its posts are known as "tweets." Tweets using this hashtag were exported into a spreadsheet between May 6, 2019, and June 22, 2020. Due to technical issues, some tweets may be truncated. In addition, the "#DeepTime" hashtag is broadly used within the geological and paleontological communities and some tweets in this accession are not related to the exhibition. Materials are in electronic format.

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This accession consists of approximately 12,403 tweets using the hashtag "#DeepTime." The hashtag was used by the National Museum of Natural History to promote the opening of the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time on June 8, 2019. After the opening, it continued to be used by the museum and the public for tweets related to the exhibition. Twitter is a microblogging platform and its posts are known as "tweets." Tweets using this hashtag were exported into a spreadsheet between May 6, 2019, and June 22, 2020. Due to technical issues, some tweets may be truncated. In addition, the "#DeepTime" hashtag is broadly used within the geological and paleontological communities and some tweets in this accession are not related to the exhibition. Materials are in electronic format.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 20-188, National Museum of Natural History, Website Records

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Electronic Records

Tweets using the "#DeepTime" hashtag, exported May 6, 2019-June 22, 2020

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