Inspiration
It's easy to get lost in the sea of breaking news, so we decided to put it all in one place. Now, as events unfold, you can follow along on a social media platforms and get a wide variety of information.
What it does
Aggregates Tweets (and eventually Facebook posts, Instagram posts, and other posts) that have a common #hashtag and displays them in a single feed.
How we built it
Using the Twitter API, we were able to query the most popular tweets of a certain hashtag and load into a table view.
Challenges we ran into
Facebook (and by extension, Instagram) depreciated their API, and it can no longer search for hashtags. This threw a big wrench into things, but we can implement it later!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
At one point, the Microsoft Graph API worked- unfortunately, something caused it to go awry. But it did work!
What we learned
Know if the API you want to use is available and can do what you want it to do, and have backup plans for when things don't work, which is a lot
What's next for Hashbag
--Support searching Facebook & Instagram posts --Use the Microsoft Graph API to be able to easily share the tweets with those on your network --Show related hashtags and further reading, given a user-defined hashtag
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