Today Rion Snow saved us huge amounts of time by giving us a primo introduction to the Twitter API. We learned about both the RESTful API and the streaming API for both Java and Python.
Slide on Sampling the Streaming API: Twitter4J
After this intro, it looks like this API is pretty straightforward to use, after you get everything installed correctly and the authorization set up.
Rion told me he’s been doing a lot of training people over the last year which is why he was able to give such a helpful, clear lecture. See all the slides.
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