Twitter apps and the Twitter API

Once you have created your Twitter developer account, in order to use the Twitter API, a Twitter app must be created. A Twitter app provides authenticated and authorized access to the Twitter API based on the specific purpose of the app that you intend to create. In order to create a Twitter app for the purposes of our real-time sentiment analysis model, please go through the following instructions (valid at the time of writing):

  1. Navigate to https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps.
  2. Select the Create an App button.
  3. Provide the following mandatory app details:
- App Name (max 32 characters) e.g. "Airline Sentiment Analysis"- Application Description (max 200 characters) e.g. "This App will collect tweets about ...

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