twitteR (version 0.99.9)

getTrends: Functions to view Twitter trends

Description

These functions will allow you to interact with the trend portion of the Twitter API

Usage

getTrends(period = c("current", "daily", "weekly"), exclude = NULL, date = NULL)

Arguments

period

One of current, daily, or weekly, to describe the time period to acquire data for

exclude

If set to hashtags, will exclude hashtags

date

For periods daily and weekly, the date to use as a starting point, in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Note that going back too far (roughly 10-14 days) will result in an empty result

Value

• A list of trend objects

Details

The current period will return the 10 current trending topics on Twitter.

The daily period will return the top 20 trending topics per hour for the given date

The weekly period will return the top 30 trending topics for each day of the week starting with date

See Also

trend

Examples

t1 <- getTrends()
   t2 <- getTrends('weekly', as.character(Sys.Date()-1))