4 Twitter

We collect data from Twitter in two versions: * we have users we follow and observe, e.g., politicians, parties, newspapers and organizations; * we have streams we collect, especially certain hashtags relevant for campaigns.

To be able to collect data from twitter via their search API you will need a Twitter account, developer access and an app to through which your requests will be handled. Please refer to the rtweets Package documentation for the setup of a Twitter token.