Creating a Twitter App and Searching and Storing Tweets in R
4 min readNov 7, 2020
Registering an Application
Now that you have developer access you’ll be looking for a low-cost to learn programme to navigate, store and analyse data from Twitter’s API. I personally use RStudio and the rtweet and twitteR packages. For this tutorial, I will be using the rtweet package.
First, on the Developer website, you will need to create an app.
This will take you to a page where you can name your app and provide a description of its functionality. One of…