Authentication for API's can be tricky. For this magic afternoon, we're going to practice connecting to Twitter's API and issuing authenticate requests on behalf of an application (Application-only authentication).
Some resources:
Create a new application on Twitter, using their application management portal. Add your consumer key and secret to the server.
Encode your consumer key and secret and retrieve an access token from Twitter's API.
On the front-end, make a request to your server with the user's search term and retrieve a list of tweets!
Nicely design and display the tweets to the user.
Remove your consumer key and secret and add them as environment variables. Push your project up to heroku!
The specification is otherwise open-ended to the implementation of the page set-up.