Plot trends in Twitter activity by query term and location Cairometer (C) 2013 by Omar N. Metwally
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This script mines Twitter data using API v. 1.1 to count the number of tweets featuring political keywords as functions of latitutde and longitude and plots them over time Permission is granted for anyone to copy, use, modify or distribute this program and accompanying programs and documents for any purpose, provided this copyright notice is retained and prominently displayed, along with a note saying that the original programs are available at this webpage. The programs are documents are distributed without warranty, express or implied. As the programs were written for research purposes, they have not been tested to the degree that would be advisable in any important application. All use of these programs is entirely at the user's own risk. The 'Request' function was written by Matt Griffiths. See the accompanying file 'fxn.py' for details. This script utilizes the matplotlib library. For copyright details visit matplotlib.org
Request function source: "Implementing a Twitter feed in Python" by Matt Griffiths www.informaticscentre.co.cuk/news/view/26