Search and extract timelines
Similar to search_tweets(), get_timeline() is another function in the rtweet library that can be used to extract tweets.
The get_timeline() function is different from search_tweets(). It extracts tweets posted by a given user to their timeline instead of searching based on a query.
The get_timeline() function can extract up to 3200 tweets at a time.
In this exercise, you will extract tweets posted by Cristiano Ronaldo, a very popular soccer player both on the field and on social media who has the @Cristiano twitter handle.
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 3200 tweets posted by Cristiano Ronaldo.
- View the first few rows and columns of the extracted tweets.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Extract tweets posted by the user @Cristiano
get_cris <- ___("___", n = ___)
# View output for the first 5 columns and 10 rows
head(___[,1:5], 10)