If you’ve written data science articles or are trying to get started, finding the most popular topics is a big help in getting your articles read. Below are the steps to easily determine what these topics are using R and the results of the analysis. This article can also serve as an intro to using an API, and doing some basic text processing in R. Feel free to alter this code to do other Twitter analyses and skip to the end if you’re only interested in the results.

The Twitter API

If you don’t have a twitter account, you need to make one. After that head over to Twitter Developer. After signing in with your new account, you can select the Apps Menu, then Create an App. From there fill out the information about the App’s details, for the most part, this can be left blank except for the App’s name and details.

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