Tweets to TSV
I created a nice Twitter to TSV (tab separated values) program this weekend using Processing and Twitter4J. The challenge of working within the Twitter API rate limiting and parsing out the data turned out to be more interesting than the original idea I wanted to work on.
What’s great is that I now have a simple way to be able to create a large dataset of tweets for any search criteria I want to work on. My last test grabbed over 48000 posts tagged with #ukvote.
Currently it outputs to a tsv file but that could be easily changed to talk to an SQL database as well if that made sense.
