So a few years ago, I was playing with a Twitter reader and running through a really basic "sentiment" analysis tool and I recently dusted off the code and updated it for others to review if they'd like.

The dictionary used here was borrowed from somewhere, I don't remember where, but it takes a non-biased, non-contexual look at the words in live tweets based on a hashtag search.

A good resource for way more inteligent sentiment analysis can be found here: http://sentic.net/

Twitter allows for modest use of their APIs for free but one needs to set up with specific OAuth keys and codes. Those codes are not available here, I have them in a "secret.yml" file not checked in to this repository. Dropwizard nicely allows for on the fly uploads of such information - the links below contain instructions on how to get these keys using your Twitter account.

I have it in my YAML file to look like:

OAuth:
  accessToken: twitterAccessTokenHere
  accessSecret: twitterAccessSecretHere
  consumerKey: twitterConsumerKeyHere
  consumerSecret: twitterConsumerSecretHere

Here are some of the links I culled to build this rudimentary tool

The Links:

• http://dropwizard.io (root of entire project and worth learning)

• https://jersey.java.net (heart of webserver in Dropwizard)

• http://www.smartjava.org/content/access-twitter-rest-api-v11-scala-and-java-using-signpost

• https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/single-user

• https://github.com/twitter/hbc

• http://java.dzone.com/articles/access-twitter-rest-api-v11

• http://www.smartjava.org/content/access-twitter-rest-api-v11-scala-and-java-using-signpost

(Note: signpost has not been updated for quite sometime, not sure if it's still safe to use - be cautious)

• http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/wiki/GettingStarted

• http://code.google.com/p/oauth-signpost/wiki/TwitterAndSignpost

• https://github.com/mttkay/signpost-examples/blob/master/OAuthTwitterExample/src/TwitterMain.java

• https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/search/tweets

• https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public

• http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/

• https://dev.twitter.com/rest/tools/console

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19646777/google-oauth-java-client-and-twitter-api

• http://fabiouechi.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/using-google-oauth-java-client-to.html

• http://www.wigwag.com/devblog/twitter-api-java-tutorial/

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start the server

sentiment>java -jar target/sentiment-0.0.X-SNAPSHOT.jar server secret.yml