Twitter Stream Importer

How to Start ?

To start, you will need :

• Gephi and the Plugin downloaded
• A Twitter Account

Create a dummy application

• Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ and login with your twitter account.

• Click on the Create New App button on the right side.

• Fill up all requiered information (Name, Website, Description). You can put dummy value here.

• Click on the Keys and Access Tokens

• Go down the page and click on Create my Access Token

• Now we have everything, you need to keep somewhere theses informations :

• Consumer Key (API Key)

• Consumer Secret (API Secret)

• Access Token

• Access Token Secret

Some Limitations

The Twitter API isn't build for desktop application, which is why this unusual procedure is needed. It works but only one person at a time can use this information.

If you want to share it for a class for example, either everybody has to do this sequence, or you need to generate a link as if it was a traditionnal application so that people can have their own Access Token. (A tool might be developped here)

Initial Configuration

• Start Gephi with the Twitter Stream Import loaded.

• Click on Credentials and fill up with the informations we got previously. You won't need to pass theses informations later on, it will be automatically reloaded.

• Do your query

• Choose the Network Logic

• Click on Connect

• Enjoy & Graph