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Is there a way to make a Mathematica word cloud of Twitter search data?

Example: Suppose you search twitter for "#Mathematica". This will bring up a bunch of tweets with other words than just "#Mathematica". It would be nice to make a word cloud of all these words to see what related concepts people are tweeting about alongside "#Mathematica". Is this possible?

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  • $\begingroup$ Unfortunately, last I checked the ServiceConnect["Twitter"] functionality had not been updated to handle 280 character tweets, which made it difficult to use... $\endgroup$ – ktm Apr 6 '18 at 4:23
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Yeah, sure.

twitter = ServiceConnect["Twitter", "New"];
result = twitter["TweetSearch", "Query" -> "#Mathematica", 
   MaxItems -> 50];
WordCloud@Flatten[Normal[StringSplit[#["Text"]] & /@ result]]

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  • $\begingroup$ This doesn't work with Mathematica Online (mathematica.wolframcloud.com); should it? $\endgroup$ – George Apr 6 '18 at 4:25
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry, George, I don't have access to the online version. Try to run the code line-by-line. Where does a problem occur? I guess it is at the first line because you cannot login to the Twitter (API works only after this). $\endgroup$ – Ihor Apr 6 '18 at 4:37
  • $\begingroup$ Correct. ServiceConnect["Twitter", "New"] returns ServiceObject["TwitterNotConnected"]. $\endgroup$ – George Apr 6 '18 at 4:40
  • $\begingroup$ Then establishing a connection to Twitter in Mathematica Online is a separate problem, which I cannot help you with. Good luck! $\endgroup$ – Ihor Apr 6 '18 at 4:47
  • $\begingroup$ See for a new question: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/170552/… $\endgroup$ – George Apr 6 '18 at 4:51

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