ptwobrussell

# Twitter's Trends API has been in flux since Feburary 2011 when Mining the Social Web was published
# and unfortunately, this is causing some confusion in the earliest examples.
# See also https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/trends

# Note that the twitter package that's being imported is from https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter
# If you have first done an "easy_install pip" to get pip, you could easily install the latest
# version directly from GitHub as follows:
# $ pip install -e git+http://github.com/sixohsix/twitter.git#egg=github-pip-install

ptwobrussell

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: