Simple tools to explore past Twitter activity

What we have here

• Sinatra, OmniAuth, twitter gem, Heroku
• As little UI as possible, think CLI level
• Simple sorted display of all the users you have favorited or retweeted
• Little attention to rate limits (15 minute dumb cache), this will blow up on large initial datasets (for now)
• Probably live at http://how-i-tweet.herokuapp.com

Setup

• bake your favorite ruby gem env
• gem install bundler
• bundle install

API Tokens

Get your own Twitter app tokens from https://apps.twitter.com/app/new

Dev mode usage

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=your_key TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=your_secret rerun rackup

Else set those in secrets.yml. Recommend you don't commit that file!

Heroku setup

Set your secrets with

heroku config:set TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=your_key
heroku config:set TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=your_secret

Heroku deploy

git push heroku master

Heroku usage

heroku open

Or visit http://your-app-name.herokuapp.com

References

• OmniAuth with Sinatra intro
• Twitter gem examples

Todo

• Need to handle hitting rate limits
• Pick a sensible cache strategy that accounts for favs and rts anywhere in the timeline
• Pick a cache for Heroku (continue to use file system for dev), options...
  • S3
  • memcachedcloud
  • ironcache