This is a tool for collecting data from Twitter. Currently the focus is on egocentric networks. After collecting and caching the data, this tool can output the data in .gexf format for visualization.

• Twitter
• networkx
• simplejson
• nose

1. Clone the repository

2. Go into the local copy

   cd poll.emic

3. Install. Currently

   python setup.py develop

4. Add a configuration file config.cfg in the top level directory of your working copy. Include the app credentials that you got from the Twitter API. See here for a sample configuration file.

For one application of this, try running the mentionball.py script.

python bin/mentionball.py @twitter

This should start crawling a mentionball centered on a particular Twitter user.