Filtering on tweet language
You can use the language filter with a search query to filter tweets based on the language of the tweet.
The filter extracts tweets that have been classified by Twitter as being of a particular language.
Can you extract tweets posted in French on the topic "Apple iphone"
?
The library rtweet
has been pre-loaded for this exercise.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing Social Media Data in R
Exercise instructions
- Extract posts on
"Apple iphone"
that are tweeted in French. - Display the tweet text.
- Display the tweet metadata showing the language of the tweet.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Extract tweets on "Apple iphone" in French
tweets_french <- search_tweets("Apple iphone", ___ = "fr")
# Display the tweets
head(tweets_french$___)
# Display the tweet metadata showing the language
head(tweets_french$___)