Creating a Twitter App and Searching and Storing Tweets in R

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…