Twitter does provide notifications for when new users start following you. It does now however provide any notifications when users stop following you. Now, there is an ample of web sites out there who do provide that service, in most cases though, they cost money, and ask you for a complete access to your Twitter account. ...
I wanted to use the now generally available Cloud Spanner database to write an app that would track stock prices and social media sentiment to identify potential correlation. To test even the validity of this approach I put together a Go app that subscribes to Twitter stream for all companies defined in the Stocks table and scores each event against the Google NLP API while comparing the user sentiment against the stock ask price against Yahoo API. ...
As part of my ramp up on Google APIs I wanted to create a project that would allow me some practical exercise in a context of a real application. TFeel (short for Twitter Feeling) is a simple sentiment analyses over tweeter data for specific Twitter search terms using Google Cloud services: ...