dnwade / top_tweets

Search twitter for top most retweeted tweets (updates in realtime). Uses Rails, websockets, and the twitter streaming api

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Top Tweet Streamer

Updates top tweets in realtime. Search twitter for the top tweets (based on the number of retweets).

Uses websockets, rails, redis, and mongodb. In particular websocket-rails and tweetstream

Getting Started

  • install Mongo
  • install Redis
  • Clone repository
  • Run bundler: bundle
  • add your twitter api credentials: cp config/initializers/tweetstream.rb.example config/initializers/tweetstream.rb
  • Start rails: rails s
  • Start foreman: foreman start

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Search twitter for top most retweeted tweets (updates in realtime). Uses Rails, websockets, and the twitter streaming api


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