A First Program using R and TwitteR to Collect someone's Tweets

This video is not for the expert but for the absolute beginner in social media data mining. How easy is it to get started? Just install R, install the R package twitteR, get yourself some Twitter api keys (see my video channel on this), write this handy little program that's just a few lines long, and you're all set to go! Don't worry at this starting point about understanding every last line in the code you write. Just get started, get some practice underneath your feet, and you'll learn, learn, learn as you go. This video was shot for the University of Maine at Augusta program in Social Science.

[@groaningupright]

Another winner! I am now able to use Leximancer to compare company profiles on multiple social media platforms. Keep up the great work!

[@munashemukundi4600]

Thank you Sir I enjoyed your video and I like the way you teach, you make learning fun

[@iamthejustin7420]

Thanks man, you are a god :D Woohoo! I passed mmy project.

[@migueldaviddavilapalomino3270]

thanks for your videos, they are very helpful! (Im a junior research in Peru :) )

[@anilshrey]

hello sir ,I m getting error while running a code setup_twitter_oauth.Error is check Twitter Authorization, OAuth authentication error. Sir can u just help me out.

[@diegoscogliesi4819]

Hi thanks a lot for the video it really helped me out. Just one question. If the Text of the Tweet is a bit longer it doesn´t show the full text on Excel. Is there any possibility to change that?

[@fratcamlca5135]

Hey James! Thanks for video a lot... But I am using a MAC and I cannot find the document after write(TrialPDF, file.timeline) command. do you think how can I get ? Thank you so much..

[@JamesCookUMA]

Hi, firat. You should look in your R settings to see where you have set your "working directory" -- that's where your files should be saving.

[@meganschwarz8818]

Great video! Quick question about an error message I am receiving. This message "Enter an item from the menu, or 0 to exit" is popping up after each line. Not sure how to fix this and would appreciate your help! Thanks!

[@timding6241]

May I ask how I can extract English tweets only? I saw an answer from stackoverflow that we can use the search_tweets() function. ( the example given is: Uber

[@mohammadismaylalmasud5399]

Thanks for the tutorial. Is it possible to gather all the tweets on a certain hashtag instead of setting n=1000 or a certain number? For example, If I want to collect all the historical tweets on a hashtag like ''climate change'', where should I make a change in the script?

[@JamesCookUMA]

Thanks for writing. All going back in time would be a lot, and would tax Twitter’s resources. For that reason (and probably some others) access is limited through the API. But visit developer.twitter.com/en/use-cases/do-research/academic-research and poke around; Twitter has introduced tiers of access for different purposes.

[@pinakikkkm]

Great video! Thanks a lot. I have one question. How to pull tweets between particular dates?

[@JamesCookUMA]

This was possible... but unfortunately, Twitter has restricted API access as of this Spring to those who are willing to pay $42,000 a month at a minimum. For folks like you and me, this makes systematic Twitter research impossible now.

[@atelesteles4022]

Hi , about Long and Lat how i can this information??? i try geocode but not search...

[@wendyspear]

How do you extract Twitter data from multiple users simultaneously. I tried using a vector of the account names (e.g. c("user1", "user2", "user3")) but it does not run.

[@sharnadas7539]

can you please tell me what does this"Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, method, ...) : Not Found (HTTP 404)." mean?? all my csv file values are kept coming same as th first csv file.

[@ot8468]

me too. do you find solution for that?

[@kelechimatthias946]

Hi this was really useful, unfortunately on connecting to my Twitter account it connected to a different account and now I'm not sure how to unlink it so I can create a new token. I know it's not the right account matched as the API key doesn't match at all - please could you give me some advice, the internet isn't being too helpful

[@JamesCookUMA]

Hi. Unfortunately, I'm not an inside expert on Twitter's administration of the API -- this can and does change frequently at Twitter's whim. The best thing to do would be to go to developer.twitter.com and to consult their help directly.

[@popayed]

İ have question. What are the limits of twitters api. How many tweet can we take?

[@JamesCookUMA]

Howdy. Twitter has a simple, readable list here: dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limits . Turns out that for the command we're using in an app, the limit is... [go look!]. :)

[@arseniocuenca7072]

Don't forget to convert the CSV file into Excel to avoid the coma separation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGazqZyiac-JhZY

[@jonathanpearl1687]

I keep getting a 403 error

[@JamesCookUMA]

Hi, Jonathan. Unfortunately, Twitter is restricting API access to those who are willing to pay $42,000 a month at a minimum.

[@abdirizakbarkhadle6371]

my name is abdirizak can you explain spss data analyzis

[@ot8468]

I got Error: Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, method, ...) : Forbidden (HTTP 403). after compiling: account.timeline.

[@JamesCookUMA]

Hi. Unfortunately, since this video, there have been multiple changes to the Twitter API.

[@martinarriola208]

Hi, thanks for the video. how to fix this error "Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, method, ...) : Forbidden (HTTP 403).!

[@JamesCookUMA]

Martin, unfortunately, this represents a rejection of the script in Twitter's API interface: the last 7 years have had a lot of changes in Twitter's architecture, which is why the script no longer functions.

[@bbbbraveheart]

😭Error in check_twitter_oauth() : OAuth authentication error: This most likely means that you have incorrectly called setup_twitter_oauth()'