Tweezer

We at Unnati do social media analytics. After talking to people, we found out that setting up a data collection framework was a tedious task. To solve this problem, we built Tweezer. With Tweezer, you can start collecting streaming twitter data in under 5 mins.

Twitter streaming api has no rate limits, so it is simpler to use it. All we need to start collecting data is to have a twitter authorized app. Connect to the streaming api with the authorized app credentials and you are ready to fetch tweets in realtime.

We have a handy configuration file designed to manage the authorized app credentials, data store credentials and the tracks to fetch data for (hashtags / keywords)

For the JSFoo event, we used tweezer to fetch the twitter stream for tags related to the event and ran the service for 3 days. Here is the link to the dashboard