A Twitter interface/visualisation based on Daniel Shiffman's flocking algorithm.

Originally a final project about climate change denial for USC IML-288: Critical Thinking and Procedural Media with John B. Carpenter. Exercises and explorations here and class repository here.

1. Download Processing.
2. Download or clone this repository.

1. Create a Twitter Developer account.
2. Create an app.
3. Set up a dev environment. Choose "Search Tweets: Full Archive / Sandbox".
4. In the /data folder, make a copy of twitter4j-default.properties called twitter4j.properties.
5. Populate twitter4j.properties with your keys and tokens.
6. Run the sketch in Processing!

• Twitter4J (included)
• RiTa (install: Sketch > Import Library… > Add Library…)
• ControlP5 (install: Sketch > Import Library… > Add Library…)

• Enter a search query to show 100 Tweets from the past 30 days.
• Hover over birds to isolate them by changing their flocking behaviour.
• Hold down on birds to show their full Tweet.
• Press enter while holding down on a Tweet to launch the URL.
• Hover over the a top word in the list to highlight birds containing that word.
• Hold down on a top word in the list to show full Tweets containing that word.

• Flocking by Daniel Shiffman