4.1. Anatomy of a Social Media Post

In order to understand how data is represented on a computer (following up on Chapter 2.3.3: Computers Speak Binary), we will look at all the data in an example social media post, in this case a tweet from the site formerly known as Twitter [d1]:

Fig. 4.1 A tweet with photos of a cute puppy! (source)

• 4.1.1. Data in a Social Media Post
• 4.1.2. Basic Data Types
• 4.1.3. Grouping data
• 4.1.4. Additional Data Types
• 4.1.5. Data Constraints
• 4.1.6. Reflection Questions