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• Perl Twitter API http://search.cpan.org/~mmims/Net-Twitter-3.18003/lib/Net/Twitter.pod

• Add live twitter feeds to your website https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

For example, to live stream #AACR, you can use

<script charset="utf-8" src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
 version: 2,
 type: 'search',
 search: '#AGBT13',
 interval: 30000,
 title: 'Live AGBT tweet feed',
 subject: 'AGBT',
 width: 'auto',
 height: 600,
 theme: {
   shell: {
     background: '#990000',
     color: '#ffffff'
   },
   tweets: {
     background: '#FFE2B9',
     color: '#000000',
     links: '#0000ff'
   }
 },
 features: {
   scrollbar: false,
   loop: true,
   live: true,
   behavior: 'default'
 }
}).render().start();
</script>

• Using Apache Malhout to classify tweets

http://chimpler.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/using-the-mahout-naive-bayes-classifier-to-automatically-classify-twitter-messages/

• Add a follow button

<a href="https://twitter.com/ElementoLab" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false">Follow @ElementoLab</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"; 
 fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

• NLTK is a great Python library for NLP

http://nltk.org/

An example

http://bommaritollc.com/2011/02/16/pre-processing-text-rtm-vs-pythonnltk/

The book

http://nltk.org/book/