TwitterPersonality

Provides a look at a user's polarity and subjectivity on twitter using the TextBlob library

Prerequisites

1. Install the Natural Language Toolkit from its website

• Make sure you install all of NLTK's prerequisites

2. Install TextBlob from its website
3. Install Tweepy using the instructions on their GitHub page

• You can either use pip install tweepy or

       git clone https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git
       python setup.py install
  

Using

1. Make sure you have a consumer key and secret generated by registering for a new api key on Twitter's developer page
2. From the terminal, type python [path/to/twitter-persona.py] [key] [secret] [user_to_analyze] [tweet_count] [include_retweets]

• Make sure you replace the objects in brackets with valid values
• Twitter's API will return at most 800 tweets.

Example

This is an example of what results from running the script using @macklemore:

python twitter-persona.py [redacted_key] [redacted_secret] "Macklemore" 500 False

Average Polarity of Tweets: 0.151289301423
Average Subjectivity of Tweets: 0.347877407229
Most Negative Tweet: I picked the wrong night to drink 2 energy drinks.... Can't sleep.  Can't wait.  LETS GO!!!!!!! #seahawks http://t.co/YHfWiM7t4L
Most Positive Tweet: Leonardo blocking out the haters. He can't see you. My best friend. #pals #animals&me #fox #vintageGǪ http://t.co/LEDfOuEJTW
Most Objective Tweet: Seahawks plane headed to NYC.....TURN UP!!!!!!! #superbowl #seahawks http://t.co/fM6JpfnT7H
Most Subjective Tweet: SEATTLE... I'm pumped to announce that for our Key Arena show on the 11th we're bringing out Sir Mix-AGǪ http://t.co/v3XMmvD6hT