/twitterforsanders

Collect endorsement tweets for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.

Primary LanguageRuby

twitterforsanders

This is basically a re-implementation of the pretty awesome idea that exists at https://github.com/mbiokyle29/endorse-bot.

It tracks folks who have said they endorse Bernie on Twitter and stores them for analysis.

The "production" app lives at:

https://twitterforsanders.herokuapp.com

Hacking

  • Create a standard Twitter app
  • Add TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY and TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET to your .env
  • rake db:create
  • forego run rake collector:twitter_endorsements (tail log/development.log for progress)