A simple Twitter library for Processing, the library uses Twitter4j, an open source project Twitter API for Java.

Download the library from github.

Examples:

• TwitterSearchUser. A simple example how to search twitters of a specific user on twitter.com
• TwitterTimeline. How to obtain the timeline of a specific user.
• twitterQuery. Search over a specific hastag
• twitterTreadTopicWorld. Search top most thread topics of the world.

The API documentation can be found in the twitter4j webpage.

This a simple tutorial in how to obtain all the necessary accreditation to enable access to your twitter account, which allows you to mine tweets using the following library twitter4j.