A simple Sinatra app for interacting with the Twitter API, and graphically displaying results using Chartkick. Deployed on Openshift at http://www.t-ripper.net/.
Originally deployed on Heroku and now migrated to Openshift.
The app allows a user to search by Twitter handle and displays various statistics back, including:
- Pie graph of the sources (devices) the selected user accesses to post to Twitter;
- Bar graph showing the days the user posts to Twitter;
- Timeline of the user's Twitter activity; and
- Timeline showing source/ device activity over time.
Tripper makes use of the Ruby for Twitter API and Chartkick
The app uses application-only authentication to authenticate to the Twitter API. There is no requirement to use Twitter credentials.
Statistics for the graphs are based on the previous 200 tweets posted by a user. This provides a good baseline of the user's activity, while avoiding Twitter API rate limits.