Twitter Politics: Collecting tweets for potential 2012 candidates

Adam Green has been building custom Twitter applications for 5 years. Thousands of people have used his open source libraries, ebooks, and tutorials to build their own websites and online tools based on the Twitter API.

Now Green has harnessed his years of coding experience to present the secret formula for successful Twitter Engagement programming.

Collect. Identify. Engage.

Collect a complete engagement profile for the most influential accounts for any area of interest. These tweets, mentions, friends, and followers will be stored in a MySQL database on your own server.

Identify the users you need to interact with, including the most mentioned tweets and tags. The reporting system included as source code can easily be enhanced to select exactly the type of users you need to help spread your message.

Engage with these key accounts using automated tweets and DMs. Follow new accounts that have been selected based on your specific needs, and track these accounts to know when they follow back.

All of the PHP source code for this book is available as open source under the MIT license.

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