Visual Twitter streams for queries.
- Setup
config.py
- Setup your Twitter info (Visit https://apps.twitter.com/ to set it up if you need to.)
- Set a login username and password
- Setup a virtualenv
virtualenv ~/env/flud --no-site-packages
- Activate it:
source ~/env/flud/bin/activate
- Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run the server:
python application.py
- Follow a twitter query/story visually:
localhost:5000/_ferguson
. Use_
to represent a hash (#
) since hashes in urls aren't passed to the backend.
If you're deploying it to a server, you can use the setup script in
setup/setup.sh
.
Note: if you have Disconnect or a similar social-blocking plugin, you may need to disable it to get the images to load properly.