Twitter Workshop

PCD2020 – Twitter Workshop

The repository & documentation for the Twitter workshop by Max Frischknecht for the Processing Community Day 2020.

Prerequisites

To access the Twitter Api you need to setup 3 things:

1. Create a Twitter Profile here
2. Apply for a Twitter Developer Account here. This might take a while.
3. Be shure that you have Node.js installed.
4. When you have been approved for the developer account you need to create an app in the Twitter developer dashboard. After you created the app click on Details => Keys and Tokens. Note down your API key, API secret key, Access token, and Access token secret

Setup

1. Clone the prepared scripts (e.g. twitter-boilerplate) to your local machine.
2. Setup the script as it is described in the README.md of the script.
3. Be shure that you update the dependencies to avoid security leaks.
4. Let's hack!

Resources

Background

• Computational Propaganda Project Oxford
• News and Political Information Consumption in Brazil: Mapping the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election on Twitter
• MA Thesis: Predicting Voters: The Significant Role of Personal Data for Political Communication in Switzerland’s Social Networks

Development

• Twitter Docs
• Twitter Api Docs
• NPM Twit Package
• What is Node.js? - Twitter Bot Tutorial, by the greatest Dan Shiffman