TwitterCounter

Scripts for counting tweets. Uses 'search/tweets' or 'statuses/filter' Twitter resource to get old or new tweets, respectively.

CountTweets.py

Counts the number of tweets that contain any word passed on the command line.

Example:

> python -u -m TwitterCounter.CountTweets red blue

CountWords.py

Prints a tally count of the occurrence of any word passed on the command line.

Example:

> python -u -m TwitterCounter.CountWords red blue

RankHashtags.py

Prints a tally count of the hashtags that appear most frequently in tweets that contain any word passed on the command line.

Example:

> python -u -m TwitterCounter.RankHashtags red blue

RankReTweets.py

Prints a tally count of the most re-tweeted tweets that contain any word passed on the command line, and prints the re-tweet text.

Example:

> python -u -m TwitterCounter.RankRetweets red blue

RankWords.py

Prints a tally count of the words that appear most frequently in tweets that contain any word passed on the command line.

Example:

> python -u -m TwitterCounter.RankWords red blue

Authentication

See TwitterAPI documentation.

Dependencies

• TwitterAPI