News and Social Data

Access historical Tweet^® data and Twitter^® REST API endpoints

If you have a Twitter account, with Datafeed Toolbox™, you can retrieve historical Tweets and other Twitter data. For Twitter credentials, log in to your Twitter account and see Create an application. Create a Twitter connection object and search for historical Tweets using the search function. Use the getdata and postdata functions to retrieve other Twitter data, Tweet, and access the Twitter REST API GET and POST endpoints.

Functions

`twitter`	Twitter connection object
`search`	Search for Tweets
`getdata`	Retrieve Twitter data
`postdata`	Post Twitter data

Topics

Conduct Sentiment Analysis Using Historical Tweets
Determine the amount of positive and negative sentiment among retrieved Tweets using a glossary of keywords.
Tweet Based on Retrieved Twitter Data
Post Tweets based on the number of followers for a specified account.