mcanthony / seaoftweets

Real time visualization of tweets.

Sea of Tweets

Real time visualization of tweets.

• Visualize tweets in real time through the Streaming API
• Tweets as Waves (height and length of the tail based on followers)
• Based on Node.js and Socket.IO
• Ready to be published on OpenShift

The project started as a real time visualization of what Italians were talking about during the election in 2013. Later on it has evolved into a more generic visualization of what Italians are talking about (mailny politicians though).

Version

1.0

Tech

Sea of Tweets uses a number of technologies to work properly:

• Node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Socket.IO - real-time bidirectional event-based communication
• Twit - Twitter API Client for node
• D3.js - JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data
• Node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework [@tjholowaychuk]

Usage

Download all the Node.js needed modules

npm install

 

Create a config.js file based on the template and set it up with the credentials provided for the Twitter Streaming APIs

cp config.template.js config.js

 

Launch stream.js [pre-configured to work on a standard localhost installation and on Openshift.

node stream.js

 

Configure your client at web/js/c.js, setting HOST and PORT to your configuration (line 1 and 2).

 

Open your browser at the location web/index.html - It should work!

    License

MIT