Election Watch

A collection of crawlers and social media analysis tools to track and investigation concept trends.

Concept

• Tools
  • Crawlers
  • Full page download
  • Monitors
  • Real-time tweet monitoring
• UI
  • Web Interface for tracking, research and analysis tasks

Platform

• Server target platform is Ubuntu. Should work on most modern Unix/Linux systems.
  • Propose sqlite3 as db until prototype is working. After, shift to Maria/Mongo/etc.
• Client target platform is modern browsers running javascript.
  • Only JS/HTML5 - No client-side plugins (flash/ActiveX).

Requested Features

• Ability to capture a screenshot of interesting tweets
• Geo-referencing (geotagged tweets, mentioned locations, profile locations)
• Honeypot account for auto-follower scripts + twitter analytics

Tools Confirmed Working

• Twitter - Real-time tweet monitoring based on keyword
• https://github.com/computermacgyver/twitter-python

Interesting Tools

• https://github.com/sferik/t

Problems

• Facebook