Millions of public Twitter streams harbor a wealth of data, and once you mine
them, you can gain some valuable insights. This short and concise book offers a
collection of recipes to help you extract nuggets of Twitter information using
easy-to-learn Python tools. Each recipe offers a discussion of how and why the
solution works, so you can quickly adapt it to fit your particular needs. The
recipes include techniques to:
* Use OAuth to access Twitter data
* Create and analyze graphs of retweet relationships
* Use the streaming API to harvest tweets in realtime
* Harvest and analyze friends and followers
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