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Get the Tweets.R
#This code reads in the tweets from the timelines of the three news websites
#Note that there is a limit of 3200 tweets that can be extracted from a users timeline.
fin24Tweets <- userTimeline('Fin24', n=3200)
bdLiveTweets <- userTimeline('BDliveSA', n=3200)
moneyWebTweets <- userTimeline('Moneyweb', n=3200)
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