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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

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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$___)
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