Intro to rtweet

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Intro to rtweet

This vignette provides a quick tour of the R package, describing what could be possible to do.

Authenticate

First you should set up your own credentials, lease read the vignette("auth", "rtweet").

Free

Posting statuses

You can post tweets with:

Code

tweet_post(paste0("My first tweet with #rtweet #rstats at ", Sys.time()))

Your own data

Code

user_self()

Paid

Search tweets

You can search tweets:

Code

rstats <- tweet_search_recent("#rstats", n = 100)

Code

tweets_peace <- tweet_search_all("peace", n = 250000, retryonratelimit = TRUE)

Get friends

Retrieve a list of all the accounts a user follows.

Code

user_following("1234565")

Get followers

If you really want all the users that follow the account we can use user_follower():

Code

R_foundation_flw <- user_follower("1599030512919650304")

Search users

We can use user_search():

Code

users <- user_search(c("1599030512919650304", "2244994945"))

Get timelines

Get the most recent tweets from R Foundation.

Code

R_foundation_tline <- user_timeline("1599030512919650304")

Get favorites

Get the 10 recently favorited statuses by R Foundation.

Code

R_foundation_favs <- user_liked_tweets("1599030512919650304")

Muting users

You can list those users muted:

Code

um <- user_muted(user_self()$id)

Blocking users

You can block users and unblock them:

Code

user_block("rtweet")
user_unblock("rtweet")

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