Exploring streaming sensor data from the Twitter API

In this section, we are going to use the Twitter streaming API to get some tweets. First we need to create a Twitter app. This can be done using the following steps:

1. Go to https://apps.twitter.com/.
   • Sign in using your Twitter account.
   • Sign up at https://twitter.com/signup if you don’t have a Twitter account.
2. Click on Create New App.
3. Fill in your application details and create the application.

4. Notice that consumer_key and consumer_secret are already generated for you. Copy them and run the following commands, replacing the underlined variables with your unique values:

$echo consumer_key >> auth
$echo consumer_secret >> auth

5. Click Create my access token.
6. Notice that access_token and access_token_secret now appear on your screen.
7. Copy them and run the following commands, replacing the underlined variables...