Hey everyone,
First, I'm not sure whether I should have posted this thread under the basic Unix commands forum or not, so I apologize if this was not the best place to do so...
Then, as the title of this discussion suggests, I would like to stream specific tweets for research purposes (I am a PhD student (interested in linguistics, not computing... -.-')), and I first started learning a few basic things with Python, but I realized that it could (apparently) be possible with just the Terminal (I'm on Mac OS) and a program like Twurl (if I'm not mistaken), so I gave up Python, but thus far I have just been able to connect to Twitter via the command line, by using my API key and secret, but now I'm stuck and I can't figure out how to make requests to stream specific tweets according to key words, or geo-localization.
I have been spending the last three weeks learning the basics of the command line so that I can better understand how it works, but I still can't find a relatively recent tutorial which would be clear enough and basic enough for a complete newbie in computing to understand how to do that, so I desperately need help now, since I am working on streaming tweets for a research project, and the deadlines are now becoming more and more pressing... So my questions are:
1) I can connect to Twitter with the Terminal and Twurl by using my API key and secret, what is the next step?
2) How to make requests to extract tweets from specific cities and with specific key words?
3) How to start streaming?
Please try to be clear (at least in newbies' terms...) since all the topics I found on the Internet apparently assume a certain knowledge of programming basics, which I don't have and it is quite frustrating not to be able to understand why the commands don't work, or what to do to make it work, hence my need for clear explanations...
I thank you in advance for any help you may bring! Any advice would be invaluable at this point. Don't hesitate to tell me if you need any more info.
Best