Twitter Battle
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I love to have fun with R and Twitter…there are a lot of cool things that you can do with it…so I just thought of having a small Twitter Battle application…something that will grab the number of followers and lists from two users…apply some crappy algorithms and determine the Twitter importance between those users…using our .RData file that holds the Twitter OAuth info…Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
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require("Rook") library("ROAuth") library("twitteR") setwd("C:/Blag/R_Scripts/Important_Scripts") load("credentials.RData") Get_Percentages<-function(p_one,p_two,flag){ if(p_one > p_two){ if(flag == 0){ OneFollowPercent<-100 TwoFollowPercent<-round((p_two * 100) / p_one) }else{ TwoFollowPercent<-100 - (round((p_two * 100) / p_one)) if(TwoFollowPercent <= 49){ OneFollowPercent<-50 + TwoFollowPercent TwoFollowPercent<-100 - OneFollowPercent flag<-0 }else{ OneFollowPercent<-50 + TwoFollowPercent TwoFollowPercent<-100 - TwoFollowPercent TwoFollowPercent<-100 - round((round(TwoFollowPercent * 100) / OneFollowPercent)) OneFollowPercent<-TwoFollowPercent TwoFollowPercent<-100 - OneFollowPercent flag<-1 } } } if(p_one < p_two){ if(flag == 0){ OneFollowPercent<-round((p_one * 100) / p_two) TwoFollowPercent<-100 }else{ OneFollowPercent<-100 - (round((p_one * 100) / p_two)) if(OneFollowPercent <= 49){ TwoFollowPercent<-50 + OneFollowPercent OneFollowPercent<-100 - TwoFollowPercent flag<-0 }else{ TwoFollowPercent<-50 + OneFollowPercent OneFollowPercent<-100 - OneFollowPercent OneFollowPercent<-100 - round((round(OneFollowPercent * 100) / TwoFollowPercent)) TwoFollowPercent<-OneFollowPercent OneFollowPercent<-100 - TwoFollowPercent flag<-1 } } } if(p_one == p_two){ OneFollowPercent<- 50 TwoFollowPercent<- 50 } percents<-c(OneFollowPercent,TwoFollowPercent,flag) return(percents) } newapp<-function(env){ req<-Rook::Request$new(env) res<-Rook::Response$new() res$write('<form method="POST">\n') res$write('Enter your Twitter username: <input type="text" name="YourUserName">') res$write('</BR>') res$write('Enter your his/her Twitter username: <input type="text" name="HisHerUserName">') res$write('</BR>') res$write('<input type="submit" name="Start the Battle!">') res$write('</form>') if (!is.null(req$POST())) { YourUserName = paste("@",req$POST()[["YourUserName"]],sep="") HisHerUserName = paste("@",req$POST()[["HisHerUserName"]],sep="") reg<-registerTwitterOAuth(credentials) GetYourUser<-getUser(YourUserName,cainfo="cacert.pem") GetHisHerUser<-getUser(HisHerUserName,cainfo="cacert.pem") GetYourFollowers<-GetYourUser$followersCount GetYourLists<-GetYourUser$listedCount GetHisHerFollowers<-GetHisHerUser$followersCount GetHisHerLists<-GetHisHerUser$listedCount FollowPercents<-Get_Percentages(GetYourFollowers,GetHisHerFollowers,0) ListPercents<-Get_Percentages(GetYourLists,GetHisHerLists,0) YourPercents<-FollowPercents[1] + ListPercents[1] HisHerPercents<-FollowPercents[2] + ListPercents[2] FinalPercents<-Get_Percentages(YourPercents,HisHerPercents,1) YourPercents<-FinalPercents[1] HisHerPercents<-FinalPercents[2] if(FinalPercents[3] == 0){ DiffPercent<-abs(YourPercents - 50) }else{ DiffPercent<-FinalPercents[1] } if(YourPercents > HisHerPercents){ message<-paste(req$POST()[["YourUserName"]],"is",DiffPercent, " % more important on Twitter than",req$POST()[["HisHerUserName"]],sep=" ") res$write(paste('<H1>',message,'</H1>')) } if(YourPercents < HisHerPercents){ message<-paste(req$POST()[["YourUserName"]],"is",DiffPercent, " % less important on Twitter than",req$POST()[["HisHerUserName"]],sep=" ") res$write(paste('<H1>',message,'</H1>')) } if(YourPercents == HisHerPercents){ message<-paste(req$POST()[["YourUserName"]], "is equally important on Twitter as",req$POST()[["HisHerUserName"]],sep=" ") res$write(paste('<H1>',message,'</H1>')) } pieValues<-c(YourPercents,HisHerPercents) pieNames<-c(paste(req$POST()[["YourUserName"]],YourPercents,"%"), paste(req$POST()[["HisHerUserName"]],HisHerPercents,"%")) png("Twitter_Battle.png",width=1000,height=700) pie(pieValues,labels=pieNames,main="Twitter Battle") dev.off() res$write("<div align='center'>") res$write(paste("<img src='", server$full_url("pic"), "/", "Twitter_Battle.png'", "/>", sep = "")) res$write("</div>") } res$finish() } server = Rhttpd$new() server$add(app = newapp, name = "Twitter_Battle") server$add(app = File$new("C:/Blag/R_Scripts/Important_Scripts"), name = "pic") server$start() server$browse("Twitter_Battle") |
When we execute it…we’re going to have some interesting results…
Have fun with it -;)
Greetings,
Blag.
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