This is a tool for collecting data from Twitter. Currently the focus is on egocentric networks. After collecting and caching the data, this tool can output the data in .gexf format for visualization.

Python Package Dependencies

• Twitter
• networkx
• simplejson
• nose

Setup and configuration

1. Clone the repository

2. Go into the local copy

   cd poll.emic

3. Install. Currently

   python setup.py develop

4. Change the configuration in config.cfg to match app credentials to authenticate against eh Twitter API:

   [OAuth] accesstoken:realaccesstoken accesstokenkey:realtokenkey consumerkey:consumerkey consumersecret:consumersecret

   [Settings] cachepath:path/to/cache/directory

Usage

For one application of this, try running the getsnowball script.

python bin/getsnowball.py

This should start crawling a snowball centered on a particular Twitter user.