/ResearchInPeace

Breaking News Detector for Academics

Primary LanguagePython

ResearchInPeace (R.I.P.)

Breaking News Detector for Academics.

Academic News Engine over the Twitter stream with an alternative interface to Twitter API listing a set of topics to retrieve the most recent tweets for on demand. Demo

It does not use any classifiers atm the tweets are retrieved by the hashtag or from the users in my Twitter lists

The user lists are compiled automatically based on a relevant keyword/hashtag (see create_community_list.py script)

Dependencies

  • twython
  • pymongo