Collecting the tweets

We will start by using the Twython library to access the Twitter API and collect a series of tweets, labeling them with the originating political party.

The details of the implementation can be found in our GitHub repository in the following Jupyter Notebook: 

 chapter2/collect_tweets.ipynb 

We need to invoke the following method in the Twython library to save tweets from @GOP and @TheDemocrats into two text files, gop.txt and dems.txt:

twitter.get_user_timeline(screen_name='GOP', tweet_mode='extended', count=500)

Each file contains 200 tweets. The following are some excerpts from the dems.txt file:

• This cannot be who we are as a country. We need to find out what happened and ensure it never happens again.
• RT @AFLCIO: Scott Walker. Forever a national disgrace.