Analyzing Twitter data with R (part 2: Importing Tweets )

Jul 20, 2015

Analyzing Twitter data with R (part 2: Importing Tweets )



Twitter is a magnificent source of very interesting data about the world, trends, products, celebrities, current and past events..etc

This is why I  have been interested in analyzing and working in Twitter data for a long time.




In part one we learned how to set up an application and get some codes and key's to use later one.
In this part of the tutorial, we will look at the ways of searching and importing data from Twitter.

The authentication process is very easy: it has mainly  2 parts:


- Entering the keys and secrets you had from Twitter

- Submitting them for authentication and get access to Twitter's API.





Bellow the code you need to get it done!






Next part will be about cleaning and re-shaping this data for analysis. Please feel free to give me your feedback about this post or any other post in this blog!

Here is the part 3 of this series of posts