Visualizing Twitter Search Results:

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Visualizing Twitter Search Results with Protovis and/or Graphviz is this easy:

$ easy_install twitter # See https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter and http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
$ git clone https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web.git
$ cd Mining-the-Social-Web/python_code
$ python introduction__retweet_visualization.py TeaParty # or whatever you want to search for

Your browser should pop open and display the results as a force directed graph, but also check your console for some useful output.

You can create an image file from the DOT language output with a command like the following:

$ circo -Tpng -Otwitter_retweet_graph twitter_retweet_graph.dot

Fork the code and have some fun with it! Also consider picking up a copy of Mining the Social Web if you find this kind of stuff interesting: http://amzn.to/d1Ci8A

This example has been updated to use Twitter's v1.1 API, which now requires authentication for all requests (amongst other things.)

To run this example, you'll just need to go to http://twitter.com/apps/new to create an app and get authentication credentials that should be inserted into this file's source code. See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/oauth for more information on Twitter's OAuth implementation