Load tweets — clamour_load_tweets • clamour

Load tweets for a clamour analysis

clamour_load_tweets(
  query,
  cache_file = NULL,
  timezone = Sys.timezone(),
  fixed = FALSE
)

Arguments

query	Query string to use for collecting new tweets.
cache_file	Path to an `.Rds` file to store cached tweets.
timezone	Time zone associated with tweets.
fixed	If `TRUE` only read tweets from cache and do not download new tweets.

Value

tibble containing tweets

Details

If a cache file exists tweets will first be read from here. New tweets will also be downloaded if fixed = FALSE. Cached and new tweets are combined and only the most recent version of each tweet is kept. Additional datetime, date and hour fields are created using the supplied timezone.