trumpimir_putin

Inspiration

I'm getting into the twitter API and wanted something to start out on

What it does

Streams tweets directly and translate in real time

How I built it

python-twitter and google translate calls

Challenges I ran into

Twitter streaming, API authentication, handling unicode and various tweet formats

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Deploying on AWS

What I learned

How to handle unicode characters in python

What's next for trumpimir_putin

Improve handling of multi-media messages on twitter, direct tweets at origin account to increase exposure

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• docker
• google-translate
• python
• twitter