add extra intro text - other tools and whereto start and get help
@@ -14,4 +14,15 @@ If you have python installed, you can install twarc using:
pip3 install twarc
```
-Once installed, you should be able to use the twarc and twarc2 command line utilities, or use it as a Python library.
+Once installed, you should be able to use the twarc and twarc2 command line utilities, or use it as a Python library - check the examples [here](api/library.md) for that.
+## Other Tools
+
+Twarc is purpose build for working with the twitter API for archiving and studying digital trace data. It is not built as a general purpose API library for Twitter. While the primary use is academic, it works just as well with "Standard" v2 API and "Premium" v1.1 APIs.
+
+For a list of general purpose Twitter Libraries in different languages see the [Twitter Documentation](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tools-and-libraries). For Python, [TwitterAPI](https://github.com/geduldig/TwitterAPI) and [tweepy](https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy) are both up to date and maintained. They also support v2 APIs, and their data format with expansions may differ from twarc. There is also a reference implementation of the [v2 Academic Access Search](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/search/api-reference/get-tweets-search-all) and [v1.1 Premium Search](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/premium/search-api/overview) from Twitter [here](https://github.com/twitterdev/search-tweets-python/). The [v2 version](https://github.com/twitterdev/search-tweets-python/tree/v2) of this script is compatible with twarc.
+
+For `R` there is [academictwitteR](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/academictwitteR/vignettes/academictwitteR-intro.html). Unlike twarc, it focuses solely on querying the Twitter Academic Research Product Track v2 API endpoint. Data gathered in twarc can be imported into `R` for analysis as a dataframe if you export the data into CSV using [twarc-csv](https://pypi.org/project/twarc-csv/).
+
+## Getting Help
+
+Check the [tutorials](tutorials.md) to get started, or follow along with this [recorded stream](https://tube.nocturlab.fr/videos/watch/1d98d20e-a4fd-4594-aa94-9b1b1301cead) introducing twarc. If you run into trouble, feel free to make a post on the [Twarc Repository](https://github.com/DocNow/twarc/issues) or on the [Twitter Developer Forums](https://twittercommunity.com/c/academic-research/62).
