TwitterFriends

Django app that makes a graph dataset with your friends on twitter, on GDF format.

This app saves information about you, all people you follow on Twitter and all people they follow using Tweepy. This data is used to make a social graph in which you can study relationships between your friends on Twitter.

For example, my social graph, made on Gephi, is:

graph

How to use

Once you've cloned the repository, follow these steps to make your own Twitter friends graph:

  1. Create a Twitter App on the Twitter Apps Site

  2. Save your keys as environment variables:

    $ export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=your_twitter_consumer_key
$ export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=your_twitter_consumer_secret
$ export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_twitter_access_token
$ export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=your_twitter_access_token_secret

  3. Migrate the Django database. You must be on the same directory as manage.py file:

    $ cd TwitterFriends/
$ python manage.py migrate

  4. Once you've done the migration, run the script save_friends.py to start saving users from Twitter. This step may take a long time, it depends on how big your Twitter Network is.

    python save_friends.py

  5. Once you've saved all users (friends and friends of your friends) it's time to create relationships between the users.

    python create_friendships.py

  6. At this step, we have all data we need. Now let's export the data. Run the server:

    python manage.py runserver

  7. Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.

  8. Download the network on the format you wish.