Awesome Twitter Tools

A curated list of awesome Twitter tools, libraries and resources.

This is a work in progress, so if you know of Twitter tools that are not mentioned here, please do a PR!

Citation

Please cite this repository as:

Hridoy Sankar Dutta and Pranay Mukherjee, “hridaydutta123/awesome-twitter-tools v1.0”. Zenodo, 25-Jun-2018.

Contents

• Tools
• Browser Extensions
• Research Papers
• Datasets
• Twitter Lists

Tools

• Tweepy - An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.
• Twython - Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API.
• TwitterAPI - Minimal python wrapper for Twitter's REST and Streaming APIs
• python-twitter - A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.
• birdy - A super awesome Twitter API client for Python.
• ParallelTweepy - A parallel task scheduler for Tweepy.
• wp-twitter-tools - A plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account
• QuickTwit - A tool to show trends in topics, and the ones originating from selective twitter accounts
• t - A command-line power tool for Twitter.
• twitter-followers - A tool to download all a user's twitter followers
• twitter-leaderboard - Tool to do engagement-based scoring of Twitter usage based on lists of users
• twitter-tap - A python tool for collecting tweets in mongoDB using the search API
• twitter-stream-globe - A real-time 3D visualization of Tweets around the world. Uses three.js (WebGL), Angular & PubNub.
• twecoll - Twitter Collection Tool
• Coopboost - Tool to grow your twitter audience.
• twitter-stats - Python tool to get stats about twitter accounts. How stop following you, etc.
• twarc - A command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Twitter JSON
• ospriet - An example audience moderation app built on Twitter.
• tinfoleak - The most complete open-source tool for Twitter intelligence analysis
• twistorpy - Simple command-line tool / python module that allows you to make a backup of the tweets of a twitter user on a json file.
• twint - An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.
• NapoleonCat - It’s a social media management and analytics tool which supports Twitter and offers many automation solutions for Twitter profiles.
• The Herd Locker - 90% of Twitter conversations are noise. Free service tracks audience-selected hashtags filtering out retweets, requotes and people sharing the stuff you've already seen but which is obscured by URL shorteners - highlighting the popular, and leaders who share it early in realtime and as a weekly digest.

Browser Extensions

• Twitter Video Assist - For your better Twitter video experience.
• Notifier for Twitter - Brings new tweet notifications to Chrome
• Twitter Web - Night Mode - Android/iOS like night mode for twitter web app
• Mass follow for Twitter - A feature-rich extension to mass follow and unfollow on Twitter.
• Twitter View Original Images - Open images in original size on Twitter.
• Twitter Unfollow All - Allows you to unfollow many users on Twitter with a simple click
• Bird Nest for Twitter - The fastest way to tweet from Chrome
• Twitter Pixel Helper - Displays an icon if there is a Twitter website tag on a given page
• QuickTweet - Single click Sign-in Assistant and Account Switcher for multiple Twitter™ accounts.
• EmojiPanel for Twitter (Previously EmojiT) - Emoji dropdown panel for twitter.com
• Share on Twitter - Easily share current tab, links and selected text on Twitter, using toolbar button, keyboard command and context menu options.
• Twitter Block Chain - Blocks all users on a following/followers page.
• Twitter Large Images - Gets the large versions of images posted on Twitter.
• Easy for Twitter - Twitter Lite for Chrome. Better then TweetDeck. Tweet to Web. Follow, Unfollow, Share, Download, Video, Like. Live Notifications.
• Twitter Media Downloader - Download images/videos of user's media-timeline on Twitter.
• Remove Promotions for Twitter - Remove promoted Trends, Accounts, & Tweets from the Twitter website.
• HashPlug - Add Twitter Search to Google - A Twitter Extension for Chrome that adds Realtime Twitter search results into Google in an unobtrusive manner.
• Twitter detector - This extension adds a twitter icon into the url / address bar when it finds all twitter accounts for the page its on.
• Twitter Volume Control - Adds a volume slider to twitter videos

Research Papers

• What is a Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?
• A system for real-time twitter sentiment analysis of 2012 us presidential election cycle
• Emoticon smoothed language models for twitter sentiment analysis.
• Fame for sale: efficient detection of fake Twitter followers
• Fraudar: Bounding graph fraud in the face of camouflage
• Twitter mood predicts the stock market.
• Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
• Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
• Twitter Sentiment Classification using Distant Supervision
• Twitter as a Corpus for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
• Twitter sentiment analysis: The good the bad and the omg!
• Don't follow me: Spam detection in Twitter
• Personalized Recommendation of Twitter Lists Using Content and Network Information
• Detecting Automation of Twitter Accounts: Are You a Human, Bot, or Cyborg?
• Fame for sale: Efficient detection of fake Twitter followers
• Like It or Not: A Survey of Twitter Sentiment Analysis Methods
• Using Twitter to Predict the Stock Market

Datasets

• Trump Tweets, 5/4/09 - 12/5/16 - All 30,385 Trump tweets as of 1/27/2017.
• Elon Musk Tweets-Until 4/6/17 - Elon Musk's tweets from 2010-06-04 to 2017-04-05.
• 476 million Twitter tweets - 467 million Twitter posts from 20 million users covering a 7 month period from June 1 2009 to December 31 2009.
• Twitter Sentiment Analysis - Dataset for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.
• The #BTW17 Twitter Dataset, Recorded Tweets of the Federal Election Campaigns of 2017 for the 19th German Bundestag - Dataset comprising of Twitter interactions related with German politicians of the most important political parties over several months in the prephase of the German election campaigns in 2017.
• Sentiment140 dataset with 1.6 million tweets - This is the sentiment140 dataset. It contains 1,600,000 tweets extracted using the twitter api. The tweets have been annotated (0 = negative, 2 = neutral, 4 = positive) and they can be used to detect sentiment.
• Twitter Data set for Arabic Sentiment Analysis Data Set - Twitter Data set for Arabic Sentiment Analysis Dataset
• Twitter event datasets (2012-2016) - This collection includes data for 30 different Twitter datasets associated with real world events. The datasets were collected between 2012 and 2016, always using the streaming API with a set of keywords.
• Twitter Events Dataset - A dataset for consolidated open knowledge representation of multiple redundant texts.
• Twitter News Dataset - This dataset consists on 5234 news events obtained from Twitter.
• Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy (ICWSM 2010) - Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy paper dataset accepted at Proceedings of the 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
• What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media? (WWW 2010) - Twitter dataset of 41.7 million user profiles, 1.47 billion social relations, 4,262 trending topics, and 106 million tweets.
• A Long-Term Analysis of Polarization on Twitter (ICWSM 2017) - A large longitudinal Twitter dataset of 679,000 users and look at signs of polarization in their (i) network - how people follow political and media accounts, (ii) tweeting behavior - whether they retweet content from both sides, and (iii) content - how partisan the hashtags they use are.
• Real-Time Classification of Twitter Trends - Dataset - Real-Time Classification of Twitter Trends - Dataset, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Twitter Event Detection dataset - EVENT DETECTION IN TWITTER: A MACHINE-LEARNING APPROACH BASED ON TERM PIVOTING, Nijmegen, the Netherlands : Radboud University
• Resources for Research on Crisis Informatics (natural disasters and man-made disasters) - 5 resources related to crisis information.
• Hurricane Harvey Twitter Dataset - Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding along the Texas gulf region.
• NFL Tweet Dataset - A dataset of NFL game data from the 2010-2012 NFL seasons along with IDs of tweets from the Twitter gardenhose that were automatically aligned to particular games/teams.
• Datasets for Social Network Analysis - Multiple Twitter datasets and other social network analysis datasets

Twitter Lists

• Machine Learning - A public list by Ali Sohani
• Crypto/Blockchain/ICOs - A list of people and companies in the cryptocurrency/blockchain and ICO spaces.
• Women in Data Science - Women doing data science, big data, machine learning, statistics, etc.
• Deeper Learning - A public list by Lee Finkelstein
• Soc Sci Academic Tweeters - Anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science and sociology
• NLP - This is a list of accounts tweeting about natural language processing.
• Startup Founders - A list of web startup founders.
• Fake Twitter Accounts - A public list by Chuck Klosterman.

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