Saves a stream of tweets from Ireland to a text file

streamTweetsIreland.js

var Twit = require('twit')
var moment = require('moment');
var fs = require('fs');

var T = new Twit({
  consumer_key:         '...',
  consumer_secret:      '...',
  access_token:         '...',
  access_token_secret:  '...',
  timeout_ms:           60*1000,  // optional HTTP request timeout to apply to all requests.
})

var results = [];

//Filter using a box within two geolocations
var ireland = ['-10.7048275','51.33', '-5.4753353','55.2573070'];

var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { locations: ireland })

//Record start date and run an "update" message on an interval
var startDate = Date.now();
setInterval(function()
{
  var elapsed = (Date.now() - startDate)/1000
  if(elapsed < 60)
  {
    var elapsedText = "Time elapsed: " + elapsed.toFixed(0) + " seconds."
  }
  else if(elapsed >= 60)
  {
    var elapsedText = "Time elapsed: " + (elapsed/60).toFixed(0) + " minutes and " + (elapsed%60).toFixed(0) + " seconds."
  }
  console.log("############## " + elapsedText + "  Total Tweets: ", results.length, ".  Tweets/hr: ", (results.length/elapsed*3600).toFixed(2) + " ##############");
}, 10000);


stream.on('tweet', function (status) {
  var result =
  {
    statusCreatedDate: status.created_at,
    statusText: status.text,
    userId: status.user.id,
    userScreenName: '@' + status.user.screen_name,
    userName: status.user.name,
    userLocation: status.user.location,
    userDescription: status.user.description,
    userFollowers: status.user.followers_count,
    userFollowing: status.user.friends_count
  }
  results.push(result);
  console.log('Tweet # ' + results.length + '#:' + JSON.stringify(result));

  //Write Results to file
  fs.writeFile('results.txt', JSON.stringify(results,null,4), function (err) {
    
  });
})