Twitter Stream Broker
Sends live Twitter stream data from a Twitter API directly into an Azure Event Hub. The business applications for real-time Twitter data is quite versatile. Some examples include tracking tornado damage , high-frequency stock trading , real-time sentiment analysis by geographic location, and brand management portals .
About the Twitter Stream Broker App
This app was build on the Django framework and JavaScript. Django is a Python based web framework used for rapid deployment of websites.
The Python package called 'azure' was used to establish connections to Azure Event Hubs. Click the following for other languages: C, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
The WebApp is built in Django and utilizes a Twitter streaming package called Tweepy . If you wish to build a brokering app like this yourself, that maintains a Twitter stream connection, we also recommend C# and a package called Tweetini . For Twitter packages in any other language, see here for a list.