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R Machine Learning By Example
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R Machine Learning By Example

by Raghav Bali
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting started with Twitter APIs

Twitter is as much a delight for tweeple (people using Twitter to tweet) as it is for data scientists. The APIs and the documentation are well updated and easy to use. Let us get started with the APIs.

Overview

Twitter has one of easiest yet most powerful set of APIs available of any social network out there. These APIs have been used by Twitter itself and data scientists to understand the dynamics of the Twitter world. Twitter APIs make use of four different objects, namely:

  • Tweets: A tweet is the central entity that defines Twitter itself. As discussed in the previous section, a tweet contains far more information (metadata) than just the content/message of the tweet.
  • Users: Anybody or anything that can tweet, follow, ...
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ISBN: 9781784390846