I think you can reuse NodeXL's Twitter library without too much difficulty. I'll include instructions for doing so in my next post. Please note the following:
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I haven't actually tried doing this, but I think it should work.
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The Twitter importers will be overhauled in an upcoming NodeXL release, which might be sometime in the next two weeks. Twitter is discontinuing the version of the Twitter API that NodeXL is using (see https://dev.twitter.com/blog/planning-for-api-v1-retirement ), and we need to adjust NodeXL accordingly. The main changes are that you will be required to authorize NodeXL to use your Twitter account, which is optional today, and that getting follows relationships will be extremely slow due to stricter rate limits that Twitter is imposing.
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The changes will be internal to NodeXL's Twitter library. The public calls for getting Twitter networks from NodeXL will not change.
