rt-graph

Visualize the network of retweeters for any given tweet.

I made this because Casey Liss mentioned that he wanted some way to browse the retweeters of his tweet. So I decided to make that.

Turns out Twitter doesn’t make the required information available through their API, so this is dead in the water.

Usage

1. Get the ID of the tweet. (It’s the 819714525519872000 in https://twitter.com/caseyliss/status/819714525519872000)
2. Go to http://mattmahn.github.io/rt-graph
3. Enter the tweet ID
4. Click “Graph!”
5. Be amazed

Development / Deployment

Dependencies

• Node ≥8
• Yarn

Getting Started

1. Fetch the application:

   git clone git@github.com:mattmahn/rt-graph
   cd rt-graph
   yarn install
   

2. Create a new Twitter app.
3. Set the consumer key & secret either in config/local.toml or as the TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY and TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET environment variables.
4. Get your app’s bearer token by running scripts/fetch_bearer_token.js and set it like above.
5. Start the application: yarn start

TODO

• [ ] Everything.
• [ ] Make sure styling is still pretty
• [ ] Option to only show verified users
• [ ] Open tweet in new tab when clicking on node
• [ ] Show additional meta information about [re]tweets when hovering over nodes
• [ ] Security best practices
• [ ] Performance best practices

License

MIT, see LICENSE.