twix - Twitter Pix

This app provides a scripted input for Splunk that automatically extracts tweets from Twitter's 1% sample stream.

A number of dashboards and searches are also included to demonstrate how Splunk can be used to visualize Twitter activity.

Installation

Install from Splunk Base

• In the Splunk web interface, from the App menu, select the Twitter app. And press "Continue to app setup page".

• Enter your Twitter credentials and click "Save". (If you don't already have a Twitter account, you can sign up for one at https://twitter.com/.)

• Wait 15 seconds or so for some tweets to be extracted.

• Run the search index=twitter in Splunk to see the events. If you don't see any events, open $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log and look for errors issued by ExecProcessor related to the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/twitter/bin/twitter_stream.py script.

Dashboards and Searches

Views > Twitter General Activity

Provides information about trending activity during the last 15 minutes.

Views > Twitter Per-User Activity

Drills down into activity related to a particular user or hashtag.

This view could be used as a social dashboard for tracking activity related to a user of interest.

Searches & Reports > Tweet Locations

NOTE: This view requires the Google Maps application from SplunkBase to be installed.

Displays the locations of tweets on a map.

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Details can be found in the file LICENSE.

Author

Greg Albrecht mailto:gba@splunk.com

Source

https://github.com/ampledata/twix