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+# rtweet 
+
+
+
+[](https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)
+[](https://cran.r-project.org/package=rtweet)
+[](https://app.codecov.io/gh/ropensci/rtweet?branch=master)
+
+[](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/64161359)
+[](https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/302)
+[](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01829)
+[](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/llrs)
+
+
+
+Use twitter from R.
+
+**This package is no longer updated and no fixes can be expected.**
+A request to Orphan the package on CRAN was sent!
+
+The maintainer cannot longer check most of the output of the
+functionality provided. If you want to volunteer reach out to the
+maintainer.
+
+## Installation
+
+To get the current released version from CRAN:
+
+``` r
+install.packages("rtweet")
+```
+
+You can install the development version of rtweet from GitHub with:
+
+``` r
+install.packages("rtweet", repos = 'https://ropensci.r-universe.dev')
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+All users must be authenticated to interact with Twitter’s APIs. See
+`vignette("auth", package = "rtweet")` for details.
+
+``` r
+library(rtweet)
+```
+
+rtweet should be used in strict accordance with Twitter’s [developer
+terms](https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/more-on-restricted-use-cases).
+
+## Usage
+
+Depending on if you are a paid user or not you can do more or less
+things.
+
+# Free
+
+You can post (`tweet_post()`) and retrieve information about yourself
+(`user_self()`).
+
+# Paid
+
+You can do all the other things: search tweets
+(`tweet_search_recent()`), retrieve your own bookmarks
+(`user_bookmarks()`), check who follows who, (`user_following()`, or
+`user_followers()`), ….
+
+## Contact
+
+Communicating with Twitter’s APIs relies on an internet connection,
+which can sometimes be inconsistent.
+
+If you have questions, or needs an example or want to share a [use
+case](https://ropensci.org/usecases/), you can post them on [rOpenSci’s
+discuss](https://discuss.ropensci.org/). Were you can [browse uses of
+rtweet](https://discuss.ropensci.org/tags/c/usecases/10/rtweet) too.
+
+With that said, if you encounter an obvious bug for which there is not
+already an active [issue](https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues),
+please [create a new
+issue](https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues/new) with all code used
+(preferably a reproducible example) on Github.
+
+# Code of Conduct
+
+Please note that this package is released with a [Contributor Code of
+Conduct](https://ropensci.org/code-of-conduct/). By contributing to this
+project, you agree to abide by its terms.
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-
+# rtweet
-# rtweet
+#
-
+[](https://www.repostatus.org/#unsupported)
+[](https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/302)
-[](https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)
-[](https://cran.r-project.org/package=rtweet)
-[](https://app.codecov.io/gh/ropensci/rtweet?branch=master)
-
-[](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/64161359)
-[](https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/302)
-[](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01829)
-[](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/llrs)
+This package has been archived, you can request for it to be unarchived if you opt to resume maintenance, for that please contact rOpenSci.
-
-
-Use twitter from R.
-
-**This package is no longer updated and no fixes can be expected.**
-A request to Orphan the package on CRAN was sent!
-
-The maintainer cannot longer check most of the output of the
-functionality provided. If you want to volunteer reach out to the
-maintainer.
-
-## Installation
-
-To get the current released version from CRAN:
-
-``` r
-install.packages("rtweet")
-```
-
-You can install the development version of rtweet from GitHub with:
-
-``` r
-install.packages("rtweet", repos = 'https://ropensci.r-universe.dev')
-```
-
-## Usage
-
-All users must be authenticated to interact with Twitter’s APIs. See
-`vignette("auth", package = "rtweet")` for details.
-
-``` r
-library(rtweet)
-```
-
-rtweet should be used in strict accordance with Twitter’s [developer
-terms](https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/more-on-restricted-use-cases).
-
-## Usage
-
-Depending on if you are a paid user or not you can do more or less
-things.
-
-# Free
-
-You can post (`tweet_post()`) and retrieve information about yourself
-(`user_self()`).
-
-# Paid
-
-You can do all the other things: search tweets
-(`tweet_search_recent()`), retrieve your own bookmarks
-(`user_bookmarks()`), check who follows who, (`user_following()`, or
-`user_followers()`), ….
-
-## Contact
-
-Communicating with Twitter’s APIs relies on an internet connection,
-which can sometimes be inconsistent.
-
-If you have questions, or needs an example or want to share a [use
-case](https://ropensci.org/usecases/), you can post them on [rOpenSci’s
-discuss](https://discuss.ropensci.org/). Were you can [browse uses of
-rtweet](https://discuss.ropensci.org/tags/c/usecases/10/rtweet) too.
-
-With that said, if you encounter an obvious bug for which there is not
-already an active [issue](https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues),
-please [create a new
-issue](https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues/new) with all code used
-(preferably a reproducible example) on Github.
-
-# Code of Conduct
-
-Please note that this package is released with a [Contributor Code of
-Conduct](https://ropensci.org/code-of-conduct/). By contributing to this
-project, you agree to abide by its terms.
+The former README is now in [README-old](https://github.com/ropensci-archive/rtweet/blob/master/README-old.md).