Setting up twitter streamR Service on an Ubuntu server

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:56:06 +0000

I am working on a super-secret project for which I am harvesting a highly confidential source of data: twitter 🙂 The idea is to gather a small amount of twitter data, but for a long time… maybe a year. I tried to use the package TwitteR, but it can only grab up to a week of tweets… it’s not really good for a set-it-and-forget-it ongoing capture since it requires user-based authentication, which means (I guess) that a machine can’t authenticate for it. Tangibly this means a human needs to start the process every time. So I could run the script weekly, but of course there’s days you miss, or run at different times… plus it’s just plain annoying…

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Setting up twitter streamR Service on an Ubuntu server