Description

`birding` is an `open source project`__ to produce a stream of recent twitter_ activity based on a sequence of search terms, using only `twitter's public APIs`_. It serves as both a standalone project and a demo of distributed real-time computing with Python_ using Storm_/streamparse_ and Kafka_/pykafka_. __ https://github.com/Parsely/birding .. _twitter: https://twitter.com .. _`twitter's public APIs`: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public .. _Storm: http://storm.apache.org .. _Python: http://python.org .. _Kafka: http://kafka.apache.org .. _streamparse: https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse .. _pykafka: https://github.com/Parsely/pykafka