twXplorer is a tool that improves upon the current Twitter search. Searching for a topic on Twitter returns a page of noisy results with no clear indication as to what the trending tweets for a topic are, making it difficult for a user to find exactly what he is looking for. Our tool addresses the shortcomings of the existing Twitter search functionality by enabling users to drill-down and explore deeper within their results.
Features include:
- View a list of tweets matching given a search term
- View a bar chart of word counts of individual terms from tweets
- Drill-down into search results by clicking on bar chart
- Exclude words from results
- View previous search snapshots to see if topics have changed over time
- Export results to a CSV file
- Install Ruby on Rails
http://rubyonrails.org/download - Install PostgreSQL
http://www.postgresql.org/orhttp://postgresapp.com/ - Clone this repository
- Run
bundle install - Run
rake db:createfollowed byrake db:migrateto setup the database tables - Generate a Twitter API key and Oauth by creating a developer account on Twitter, include this information in
/lib/tasks/initsetup.rake
- In your console, navigate to where you cloned the repo and run
rails s - Open your favorite browser and go to this address
http://localhost:3000/