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This project opens the Twitter API stream and saves each tweet into a mongo database as the data comes in. N.B. this is not ALL tweets, but a sample, as per the Twitter API.

The data in the database dump began collection on May 1 at 1:43pm, and ended May 4 at 10am. It contains >26k records containing the #talkpay hashtag.

This project is forked from and based on tweet-collector.

Usage

This app was deployed to Digital Ocean using Dokku, a Docker-powered Heroku-like interface. To run locally:

1. npm install dependencies
2. Update env.js.sample to contain your API information and remove the .sample ending
3. Ensure MongoDB is running on your computer
4. Run node getTweets.js to run the program