Search and extract tweets
Many functions are available in R to extract twitter data for analysis.
search_tweets()
is a powerful function from rtweet
which is used to extract tweets based on a search query.
The function returns a maximum of 18,000 tweets for each request posted.
In this exercise, you will use search_tweets()
to extract tweets on the Emmy Awards which are American awards that recognize excellence in the television industry, by looking for tweets containing the Emmy Awards hashtag.
The library rtweet
has been pre-loaded for this exercise.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Analyzing Social Media Data in R
Instruções do exercício
- Extract 2000 tweets on
"#Emmyawards"
, including all retweets.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Extract tweets on "#Emmyawards" and include retweets
twts_emmy <- ___("___",
n = ___,
include_rts = ___,
lang = "en")
# View output for the first 5 columns and 10 rows
head(twts_emmy[,1:5], 10)