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Calculate the percentage of tweets linking to a website that came from the Tweet button
#
# Before running:
# $ gem install twitter
#
# Register a Twitter application to get auth credentials:
# https://dev.twitter.com/apps
#
# To run:
# $ ruby counter.rb upworthy.com 500
#
# Where 'upworthy.com' is the website and '500' is the number of tweets to analyze.
#
# Context:
# http://luigimontanez.com/2012/actually-social-media-buttons-work-really-well
#
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
search_term = ARGV[0]
num_tweets = ARGV.fetch(1, 100).to_i
total_tweets = 0
from_button = 0
from_ios = 0
from_android = 0
from_web = 0
from_facebook = 0
from_hootsuite = 0
from_ifttt = 0
from_twitterfeed = 0
from_dlvr = 0
client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
config.consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
config.consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
config.access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
end
options = {:count => num_tweets, :result_type => 'recent'}
client.search(search_term, result_type: "recent").take(num_tweets).each do |tweet|
total_tweets += 1
from_button += 1 if tweet.source =~ /Twitter for Websites/
from_ios += 1 if tweet.source =~ /iOS/
from_ios += 1 if tweet.source =~ /iPhone/
from_ios += 1 if tweet.source =~ /iPad/
from_android += 1 if tweet.source =~ /Android/
from_web += 1 if tweet.source =~ /Web Client/
from_facebook += 1 if tweet.source =~ /Facebook/
from_hootsuite += 1 if tweet.source =~ /Hootsuite/
from_ifttt += 1 if tweet.source =~ /IFTTT/
from_twitterfeed += 1 if tweet.source =~ /twitterfeed/
from_dlvr += 1 if tweet.source =~ /dlvr/
max_id = tweet.id
end
puts "Search term: #{search_term}"
puts "Total tweets analyzed: #{total_tweets}"
puts "Tweets from button: #{from_button} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_button.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from iOS: #{from_ios} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_ios.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from Android: #{from_android} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_android.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from Twitter.com: #{from_web} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_web.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from Facebook: #{from_facebook} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_facebook.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from Hootsuite: #{from_hootsuite} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_hootsuite.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from IFTTT: #{from_ifttt} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_ifttt.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from twitterfeed: #{from_twitterfeed} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_twitterfeed.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
puts "Tweets from dlvr.it: #{from_dlvr} (#{sprintf('%.1f', (from_dlvr.to_f / total_tweets.to_f) * 100)}%)"
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/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/request/multipart.rb:4: warning: already initialized constant DEFAULT_BOUNDARY
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/response/raise_error.rb:21:in on_complete': Unable to verify your credentials (Twitter::Error::Forbidden) from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/response.rb:9:incall'
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from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/api/oauth.rb:24:in token' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/client.rb:96:inrequest_setup'
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from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/request.rb:34:in tap' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/request.rb:34:increate'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/connection.rb:260:in build_request' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/connection.rb:245:inrun_request'
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/faraday-0.8.8/lib/faraday/connection.rb:106:in get' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/client.rb:108:insend'
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luigi commented Nov 5, 2013

@glassresistor I just updated the script with some fixes.

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