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# What is Twitter Tap and how does it work? # # About Twitter Tap #
Twitter Tap is a python tool that connects to the Twitter API and issues calls to the search endpoint using a query that the user has entered. The tool follows all the **next_results** links (with the corresponding **max_id**) so that all results are collected. When all the **next_results** links are exhausted the query is repeated using the **since_id** of the latest tweet from the results of the first query and follows all the **next_results** links again. The latest **since_id** is also stored in the database for each distinct query (query, geolocation, language), so that when the tool is restarted you will still only receive unique tweets. Twitter Tap is a python tool that connects to the Twitter API and issues calls to the search endpoint using a query that the user has entered. The tool follows all the **next_results** links (with the corresponding **max_id**) so that all results are collected. When all the **next_results** links are exhausted the query is repeated using the **since_id** of the latest tweet from the results of the first query and follows all the **next_results** links again. The latest **since_id** is also stored in the database for each distinct query (query, geolocation, language), so that when the tool is restarted you will still only receive unique tweets.
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