- [Speaker] One of the fun and interesting things
that you'll do as you work your way into the higher lessons
and chapters of our Python materials,
is the "Data Mining Twitter" lesson.
Now in this lesson, one of the things
you are going to be doing is interacting
with the Twitter APIs over the internet
to do things like search for tweets on a specific topic,
to analyze those tweets,
to stream tweets live as they occur,
and to analyze those live,
and do things like perform sentiment analysis
where you're looking at each tweet's text
and trying to determine whether it's positive or negative,
or analyze them however you like.
Now in order to do that, Twitter is going to require you
to have a developer account.
So you're going to need to register for access
to using their APIs and that will give you the credentials
that you need in order to work with a library
that we use called Tweepi,
which is going to make it really easy to interact
with Twitter on your behalf.
Now to sign up for your own Twitter credentials,
which you must do before you execute
any of those Twitter-based examples in the Twitter lesson
or in subsequent lessons that also have
some Twitter processing in them,
you will need to go to this website
developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access
and fill out the web form there to be approved
for a Twitter developer account.
Now at the time that we signed up,
if you were signing up for a personal account,
it was approved immediately.
If you were signing up for a business account,
they took a little bit longer look at those
and it could take anywhere from a few days
to a few weeks to get approved for a business account.