TwitterViewer

Twitter Viewer is a webapp that lets you view local tweets on a map. Visit it at http://samueldominguez.heliohost.org/TweetViewer_war/

Features

• Search for tweets!
• See the location of the tweet's origins on a map!
• Click on a map pin to see the tweet from that location!

Implementation

• Web server is APACHE TomCat.
• Built using Intellij Ultimate Edition thanks to free licence for students.
• Tweets collected using Tweepy.
• Indexing and searching is done using APACHE Lucene.
• Maps is done thorugh Google Maps API

How To Run It

Dependencies - Make Sure You Have:

• Apache Tomcat v9
• Apache Lucene v8
• Intellij Ultime (not Community version), Eclipse, or knowledge of setting up Tomcat server.
  • Intellij Ultimate is free with .edu email

Directions

• Clone Repo
• link project to tomcat server
  • If using Intellij Ultimate, specify the path to your tomcat directory.
• Run and open browser to whatever port tomcat is using
• type in a user query, hit enter, and click on pins to see tweets