Platform T: a robust and flexible technology for Twitter analysis

We created the Platform T to perform a robust, flexible and customizable analysis of Twitter content. Platform T is based upon several scripts mainly designed by Rodrigo Travitzki comprising the following computer implementations​​:

• PHP (dynamic internet);
• MySQL (database);
• R (statistical analysis).

The scripts work as a plug-in to the GNU/GPL software YourTwapperKeeper and have been widely tested on UNIX systems (Linux and Mac OS).

Platform T collects, compares and tabulates Twitter data providing some basic exploratory analysis of each sample (tweets clustered by a keyword or hashtag). Platform T thus produces a variety of objects - tables, matrices and networks - that can subsequently be used for different uses and objectives.

What follows next is a diagram of the Platform T structure. It depicts the diversity of Twitter APIs used to cluster the required data and the general connection over Twitter, PHP, MySQL and R.