A crowd-sourced directory of history of science Twitterstorians
The Twitterdex is hosted by Digital HSS. See the live Twitterdex.
"Twitterdex" is a portmanteau of "Twitter" and "Rolodex," of which only the later needs explaining! Rolodex, itself a portmanteau of "rolling" and "index," refers to a rotating set of cards used to store contact information IRL. The skeuomorphic design of the digital version harkens back to this history by including the holes that would have been used to include the cards on a stand.
In short, the Twitterdex is an online directory of Twitter users. In this case, these are historians of science and related fields like medicine and technology.
A great way to find #histSTM people to follow on Twitter, independent of the idiosyncratic suggestions that pop up in your feed. The list is entirely self-generated, so if you aren't yet included, just add yourself! #Twitterstorians https://t.co/KJu43tVDeI
— Erika Lorraine Milam (@elmilam) August 20, 2019
The code uses Node to fetch and parse data from the Formstack and Twitter APIs to render a Handlebars template to HTML. A live version of the finished product is avaialable on the History of Science Society's website.
To run the Twitterdex
node twitterdex