The World's Tweets on a 3D Globe

Welcome to our real-time Twitter Firehose API demo, which displays tweets from around the world on a 3D globe as they occur. You can customize your experience by adding a search term in the URL bar. Tweets containing this term will then be displayed on the globe, originating from their tweet location.

Running the Project Locally

Follow the steps below to run this project on your local machine:

Navigate to the project directory:

Open your terminal and navigate to the globe directory inside the project repository. Replace the ... with your local route to the project.
```
cd ~/.../eatingEarth/globe
```
Start a local web server:

Inside the globe directory, you need to start a web server. One option is to use serve, a static file server. You can start it with the following command:
```
serve .
```
Access the web page:

Now, open your web browser and navigate to your localhost at the designated port (default is 5000 if you use serve), then go to our tweetGlobe.html page with a searchTerm parameter. The updated URL is as follows:
```
http://localhost:3000/tweetGlobe?searchTerm=quantum
```
In this example, the searchTerm parameter is set to 'quantum'. As a result, the globe will display tweets that contain the word 'quantum'.

And that's it! Enjoy exploring global tweets in real-time with your chosen search term.

johnlk/eatingEarth

The World's Tweets on a 3D Globe

Running the Project Locally