The Documenting the Now project is pleased to announce that the twarc data collection utility [1] has been updated to work with the Twitter v2 API: https://news.docnow.io/twarc2-779278e66ea0 This means that twarc can now be used to collect data from the historical archive, if you have been granted access to Twitter's Academic Research Product Track. Previously only the last 7 days or so were available from Twitter without paying them. It also means you can take advantage of new features of the v2 API such as retrieving all the tweets in a conversation thread, or entity annotations for people, places, products and organizations mentioned in tweets. While it has been fairly stable for the last ten years Twitter's canonical JSON representation of a tweet is greatly transformed by the v2 API since many aspects of the data are optional. One of the most useful features of the new version of twarc is that it will collect the maximum amount of information available for a tweet, which lets you perform your data collection knowing that all the various expansions and fields will be present when you do your research. Finally we've redesigned twarc to allow for plugins [2] which extend the twarc2 base command to let it do things like extract videos [3] from tweet data, or convert Twitter's JSON to CSV [4]. You can install these plugins just like you install twarc, and write and share your own. If you need help getting started or have feedback for us we would love to hear from you here, in comments on the blog post, or in the Documenting the Now slack [5]. And if it's appropriate, please feel free to share your tweet identifier datasets in the Catalog [6]. Thanks! Ed Summers University of Maryland [1] https://twarc-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2] https://twarc-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins/ [3] https://pypi.org/project/twarc-videos/ [4] https://pypi.org/project/twarc-csv/ [5] https://bit.ly/docnow-slack [6] https://catalog.docnow.io