twitter-stats

Inspiration

I was feeling uninspired at hackBCA, honest. So I went to twitter to try and look for ideas, but I only got more distracted, and so I settled for making an app about my own downfall.

What it does

Looks at your main_timeline and your tweets to determine various statistics, from word choice, to who you tweet at.

How I built it

It's a simple O-authentication app that uses the twitter REST API to make calls from the server and back. Using NodeJS, I easily parsed the data and used plotly to graph.

Challenges I ran into

Client requests took a long time, I wish it was a bit faster. Other than that, I had some trouble with getting the frontend just where I wanted it to be.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm surprised the idea got this far. I thought I would drop if halfway through, but the results kept getting more interesting.

What I learned

That a simple idea that can grow to be very complex.

What's next for twitter-stats

That's up for you to decide! I will probably allow it to search more tweets, which I had trouble with as it resulted in multiple requests for dynamic users.

Built With

• bootstrap
• express.js
• jade
• node.js
• npm-twitter
• o-auth
• request
• twitter