Real-time tracking of Russian oil and gas ships through the Twitter bot

Audrey Uhlmann and her crew took to the keyboard in the days after the United States embargo on Russian oil and gas imports. She and her team of data scientists at Greenpeace U.K. developed a similar programme, inspired by the Russian Oligarch Jets tracker on Twitter, to follow the movements of tankers shipping Russian oil throughout the world.

The import restriction in the United States provides a 45-day grace period for current con....